This is the problem with some Qantas mainline guys and girls, your heads are in cloud cuckoo land. Jetstar is the most profitable part of the the Qantas Group at the moment, they are wholly owned by Qantas Group so are of course going to have 'investment' from the group.
AH, Joyce stated recently that Qantas Domestic is the most profitable part of the group at the moment. This begs the question how is this possible with part of this segment employed under the Long Haul Award, and "expensive" engineers and overpaid flight attendants?
Under Joyce's own theory of not investing in unprofitable parts of the group, shouldn't Qantas domestic be receiving bucketloads of money? Sure they are currently getting brand new 738's that have been ordered years ago, but there is no expansion, these are replacing old 734's and 767's one for one. Under his own theories we should be seeing the first 787's going straight into mainline domestic operation. These will be going to the loss making Asian operation. Its questions like these that is making employees nervous about their future.
The likes of Bruce Buchannon also makes Qantas employees nervous. With managers that have attitudes like this towards their "parent" company what hope to people have. The main and obvious reason for the decline in Qantas International profit is glaringly obvious....Jetstar international. The money spent setting up this operation (and employing BB, why didn't he get dismissed after his incident on the 744?) as well as a few better equipment decisions would see that division reaping the rewards that Cathay and SIA enjoy.