So as the sun sets in the west, where will Mr Rix appear next? Perhaps Singapore after a short break away from the company?
He started in March and will be gone by the end of July.
A couple of possibilities come to mind.
Perhaps he wanted to change things but it was too late, as he arrived about the time of the show cause notice. So maybe he was competent but restricted by TD and could not change anything. Or perhaps he was a puppet of TD and now he will be made to fall on his sword.
His previous experience was at BMIbaby, a loss making airline serving a densely populated country embedded in Europe with a huge leisure travel market. If they could not make it work there then something is definately wrong.
BBC News - Cardiff Airport's future in spotlight as bmibaby exit
After two days in the job, new bmibaby boss makes a quarter of staff redundant - Times Online
Nov 10, 02:41 PM
Bmibaby is known as an airline which offers low cost flights to lots of passengers.
But it would appear that along with several other airlines it is having trouble navigating its way through the recession. A selection of pilots will lose their jobs at Birmingham Airport among others, and a number of cabin crew positions will also be shed in a bid to save money and restructure the business.
The losses are understandable when you consider that bmibaby is operating at a significant loss. Apparently those losses added up to a whopping £100 million in the last financial year. A new head at the firm, Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, has decided on these moves to try and help the company move forward and reduce costs. But of course it is disappointing news for those whose jobs will be immediately affected.
That is AUD$149 million at todays exchange rate.
That makes a AUD$6.7 million loss for Tiger last financial year look pretty good.