Interested parties will be picking through the details of Qantas' actions in the days to come....
The QF
PR machine will be working very hard to put a veneer of respectability on what has been the equivalent of bringing a nuke to a knife fight.
A lot of stranded passengers that did not need to be stranded (or could have been warned) will need to be placated
An early play of the ace card will have to bite someone at QF, don't see how it cannot
Time for the unions to show that this is the kind of management that they have had to deal with - something like Bob Brown said, Millionaire board and management, arrogant and driven only by the bottom line lockout workers in red ties....
For all those self appointed capitalist commentators out there, there is more to business than the bottom line alone, AJ, LC and co will reap this lesson in the fullness of time, you can win the war but must win the peace and engage your staff - little chance of that now