All that yesterday has confirmed is, one way or another, Qantas International is set to change.
Keeping Qantas Australian desperately needs fresh vision. Clearly more of the same isn’t going to change what’s already afoot.
Qantas has some very valuable assets (route rights, landing slots, aircraft orders, etc), attractive not only to Jetstar, but also to astute investors skilled at picking over airlines in distress.
As they say, opportunity is born out of adversity and there is a window of opportunity to use yesterday’s outcome to build momentum necessary for an employee backed bid for Qantas, but it requires action now.