Merged: It's downhill between SYD & LHR

[struggling]

If the Yanks can see how it ought to be done-


· American Airlines has received yet another endorsement of its Flight Plan 2020. Key to its success, according to Airlinefinancials.com is massive change in labour-management relations. Without that, said Founder Bob Herbst, American will not be able to compete. American Airline's single largest obstacle to long-term success – profits and growth – is finding a solution which resolves their decades of contentious and on-going battles between labour and management.

Is there any reason why the airlines down under should continue to slug it out in the trenches?

Looks to me like it’s time those who lead this industry came up with something else other than cost cutting and offshoring.Is absolutely no reason why the employees of Qantas & Jetstar should suffer while the wheel is reinvented.