... since Jetconnect has overlapped the JQ evolution, I don't think it's too long a bow to draw to infer that such creative accounting has been going on for JQ's entire existence too.
The view of many is that:
- inept fleet decisions,
- short-sighted engineering decisions,
- marketing budgets skewed in favour of the JQ "brand",
- cost-cutting which has affected the premium and high-yield product,
- dysfunctional internal competition driven by KPIs and bonuses rather than true efficiencies,
- alternately praising then demonising employees depending on the EA negotiation phase,
- deliberate misrepresentation of the pilots’ claims in the media, and
- convenient cost apportionment to make L/H look bad while other parts of the group become the darlings of profitability has
- done real damage to the QF brand.
Is anyone still confused as to why QF employees are annoyed? And there's a certain irony in the fact that JQ staff are also annoyed because they too are facing job exports! At least the 'group' employees are finally seeing the true agenda here.
