"Qantas to cut flights and jobs"

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Management out of control

To put the management cuts into perspective:

In 2009, when Alan Joyce took over the reins, 500 management jobs were cut.

“The Australian's John Durie wrote: "Another 200 Qantas managers, or about 16 per cent, face the axe since the fuel price hike that has hit the airline industry. This would be biggest cut since April 2009, when about 500 positions were cut…”
Source: Business Spectator http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Qantas-Virgin-Blue-retail-Colorado-Myer-Centro-ASX-pd20110331-FFQU8?opendocument&src=rss

At the time, the reduction resulted in 800 Executives remaining within the Qantas Empire or 2.4% of the workforce based on the 2009 annual report figure of 33,030 employees.

If 16% of Executives is 200 then the total number of Executives now stands at 1250. This is 3.85% of the employees based on the 2010 annual report figure of 32,490 employees.

So, under Alan Joyce’s tenure, the Executive ranks at Qantas have swelled by 450 or approximately 57%. Add to that that there are generally 2 SPG’s (Senior Professional Group) managers to each Exec and the explosion at the top is quite extraordinary. This has happened in two years whilst Alan has been hammering the actual people who face the customer.

Alan, you have lost the plot. Your engagement mantra is just a hollow set of words not backed by any action.

By the way, every Qantas frontline employee should be aware that when an Executive takes 4 weeks of leave, they are re credited one week back into their leave bank as an incentive. How does every Pilot, Flight Attendant, Engineer etc. feel about that little smack in the face? Your family time is nowhere near as important as theirs.