runesta says "Responsibility"; are you kidding me.....
Has any Qantas CEO taken responsibility or been held accountable for:
- Criminal Cartel involvement.
- APA bid and failure with all its subsequent fallout.
- The obvious fleet dilemma, especially lack of 777, impotent reaction to the 787 delay, no proper strategy for the extension of use of 767's and ageing 744's.
- International airline failing due to aforementioned fleet and laughable schedules, no middle east flying of it's own (and losing Etihad to Virgin), Extensive European network (NOT!), Finally waking up to DFW opportunity but do it with the wrong aircraft!
- Total failure of the Industrial Relations strategy, (last engineers dispute and now the perfect storm).
- Total failure of outsourced maintenance.
- Deplorable IT.
- Jetstar failure - and it is a failure. The total amount made so far minus the start up costs, cross subsidisation and loses of Jetstar Int and Pacific is likely a negative, at best a small positive. If the same capital was used to invest in 25 777-300ER's over the same period to reinvigorate the long haul fleet they would now be realising $300 Million dollars of savings in fuel alone EVERY SINGLE YEAR, year in, year out. Also Dallas would be workable, maintenance would be a lot cheaper (maybe they could afford to do some in Aust?), the engines wouldn't be failing left right and centre and the customers would love it. Importantly Virgin would most likely have stayed competing with tiger and wouldn't be coming after the last remaining cash cow that is Qantas domestic business travellers.
- Trashing of the Qantas brand on so many levels, mostly due to the list of issues above.
Just to name a few.
CEO's in general might be responsible, just not QF CEO's.
At least the previous ones seemed to have some ideas of their own, even if many of them were no good, the present one has no clues, hence the need for a committee formed to tell him what to do with Qantas International.
He is the CEO of the Qantas group, the main part of the Qantas group is Qantas International, and he needs a committee? Is he serious? How does the board put up with this? How do investors put up with this?
I know for a fact that the staff are totally over it, are we the only ones who see it?
It appears that the board has appointed a CEO to run the company who in turn appoints a committee to tell him how.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
