Jetstar has recently outsourced all its base/heavy maintenance to John Holland. OK, fair enough at the Jetstar level, they have found somebody to under cut the QF Engineering quote. But how can the QF Board allow such a situation to occur? When Qantas was doing the maintenance the cost was just a paperwork exercise on the balance sheet, now QF pays out hundreds of millions to another entity - money lost to the QF Group; QF Engineering loses economies of scale which drives up the cost of maintenance for mainline a/c.
The QF Board is either:-
A) Asleep at the wheel,
B) Intentionally driving QF into the ground,
C) Has no faith in the ability / quality of it's engineering staff,
D) All of the above.
(Can't wait for the Christmas Memo telling me what a wonderful job I have done, and how important it is to the QF group - not!)