AUGUST 24th - QANTAS

[Worrals in the wilds]

SMH is reporting that Canberra is starting to get rattled and that DJ is attacking Govt travel account.

Good. How does the travel account work, anyway?
Do they sometimes fly with Virgin? If not, is there a tender process?

The rest of the email was more corporate drivel: "The best of what air travel can be … a pioneer that introduced flying to a young nation …

This is what gives me an acute case of diarrhea. They're still banging on with the 'We're the Orstrayian Airline' drivel in their marketing, complete with full page ads featuring cute lil' lifesavers, when a picture of an overworked Thai hostie earning a bag of rice a day would be more in line with the corporate plan for tomorrow's Qantas . The current Board is a long way removed from the enterprising chaps who set up the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service. Those guys had vision and decency.