QF, to my knowledge has always been top heavy, full of middle managers building little empires in corners, in fact in the early nineties when bomb scares were in fashion, some dill rang and said there was a bomb in Admin 1, they reckon people came out nobody had seen for years, in fact they thought they were dead! Qantas for some totally unfathomable reason, go every four years or so on a witch hunt. They sack anybody remotely knowledgeable, and with experience, then start recruiting again bringing in people with no experience at all. Anybody who has managed to survive one or more of these purges knows exactly what I am talking about. Truly QF flies in spite of itself, it truly does, and yet its exasperated but incredibly loyal staff, just keep on keeping on, and always have done, they deserve better.