@peuce - see post 238 on page 12
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting...ml#post6777414, and post 481 on page 25
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-reporting...iately-25.html. These give my position, and pose some questions, which QF94 addressed very cordially (thank you). I don't know if those links work - not sure of the 'system'.
And I don't think reality allows it to be up to the majority of Australians to decide what happens to Qantas. It's probably in this order:
The major shareholders, who appoint the directors, who appoint the CEO, etc. The government has a say through legislation, and the public has a say through buying tickets or not.
peuce: "But, for the life of me, I can't understand how a majority of Australians would be happy with a very limited number of shareholders lining their pockets ... at the expense of the draining of national expertise, employment opportunities, infrastructure, skills, capability and assets."
The majority of Australians have seen manufacturing infrastructre disappear, sometimes with their jobs. Read my earlier posts.
@peuce: "Can you please explain to me ... what is in it for 99% of Australians?
What am I missing?"
More affordable airfares/cheaper airfares. Do you think 99% of Australian care where their TV was manufactured, or their computer, or the clothes they are wearing? Do they pay more for Australian manufactured goods. NO - history shows this is not the case. Who owns Vegemite, where are King Gee clothes manufactured, etc etc.
I'm not saying this is "right", I'm just saying it is real.