quite amusing reading through some comments which I would consider personal attacks on Geoff because his views aren't the same as yours.
some questioned Geoff's credentials - well, what is Steve's credentials in running and managing an airline?
I have absolutely no doubt there are systemic and serious incompetence in management ranks within engineering and elsewhere but it seems both sides management and the unions are having extraordinary success in scaring passengers off from flying the very airline they work for. Of course the media, too, do their bid to the very best of their ability to sensationalise any trivial events to beat them up as near-death experiences.
Struggling to see how this is a win-win situation. But definitely a case of the tall poppy.
The reality is not too long in the near future all the jobs will disappear.
A dangerous cocktail of incompetence, cronyism, scaremongering, sensationalism - yes, this is contemporary australia!
