These are just a few of the matters you have raised in your recent pieces, many of which you frame as personal criticisms of my leadership and that of the Qantas board
Without Qantas you would have never have had Jetstar, your baby you protect so much . It is my view, AJ you are playing with the figures to make "baby" look good, at the expense of its big brother, favourtism. The jury is still out whether the LCC model in OZ will have long legs marketing wise. JB is running rings around you going for the premium market and Tiger, (Ryanair) LCC model is struggling .....
AJ, you slag off your staff and run down your Mainline product in the press at every opportunity. You are so out of touch with your staff, you might as well be running the company from Ireland, it is such that you have no understanding what it is to be Australian.
This is the message you, the board and your executive team are portraying to all Australians. Under normal circumstances it is not good to play the man in the media (I am unashamedly guilty of this) but mate on this issue, it's hard to separate the man and the ball as you keep running with the ball up your jumper! Image wise, you are doing for Qantas what Muammer Gaddafi did for Libya. If you can't get this concept in your head then you are the wrong guy for the job, period.
Miranda Devine saw this a couple of weeks ago...
The real Qantas kamikaze - to be sure to be sure | Daily Telegraph Miranda Devine Blog
Qantas’ current industrial strife is a worry to fans of the national carrier. Why is a newly arrived Irish CEO with an incomprehensible accent attacking the pilots, of all people, and calling them “rogues” and “kamikazes”.
Clearly Alan Joyce, 44, doesn’t understand Australians’ attachment to Qantas.
Just read the comments......
The ball's in yours and the boards court re the direction it gets hit. In the public's eye the backhanders served up by you against your Aussie staff probably has a lot to do with why the traveling public are exploring other airline options when choosing their next flight, they are fed up with the continual blame game, it's all the staff's fault, probably a key factor why Q are losing market share. It's not rocket science. Qantas is an Australian icon, it is still an nationalistic issue whether you like it or not.