TP being an expat means that you can't keep up with the day to day happenings in the land of your birth so when you make a comment it is from the perspective of an outsider. If you witnessed the press conference when the APA bid was announced then you would have seen GD jumping out of his skin at the thought of all the money he was going to make out of it.
What is happening at QF is a further attempt at getting their hands on the money. Clearly I am not the only person with this view as the Senate Enquiry is demonstrating. Parliament simply wouldn't be wasting its time if it thought that QF was a well run company. The pollies would not have failed to notice the decline in service and the running down of the fleet with all the travel that they do. To them and to most Oz based airline employees what QF management say and what they do does not add up.
If QF are losing 200m on international then they should be investing in the international product, not setting up new airlines in Asia which would seem to be a riskier strategy.
If you think that airline executives are exceedingly clever and must know more about the business than your average dumb schmuck pilot go ask the board of SQ how much money they have made over the last ten years in investing in other airlines. Go ask Brierly Investments how much money they made in their ANZ investment. When any airline is being run to someone else's agenda then the business goes on a downhill slide. The APA bid demonstrated that the long term survival of QF is of little interest to those who want to line their pockets.
On another point, watch Question Time and see why opposing points of view get shouted down. Its the Australian way of having a debate. Get used to it or don't log in.