It depends on what the rumour says they are bidding for. QF International (supposedly a basket case), QF Domestic (mildly successful as it's a big land mass and there is no real competition), or JetStar, the low-cost 'Orange Cancer'?
There are some characters in QF International who would make our most tense and pedantic Aussie checker look like he was on Valium. And as far as the pilots are concerned, the three entities above are polluted to various extents by ex-domestic pilots who let their mates down, and foreign 'encrustations' invited into the country, in the 'year that dare not speak its name', particularly QF Domestic; these boys were let onto the combined QF seniority list without a murmur when the domestic airline, 'Australian' was merged into the Rat. And the upper echelons of the Cancer in particular are full of 'blue shirters', the ex-Ansett 'heroes', the lower ones with pilots who fly for food.
And would the same CX managers who organised the Australian onshoring debacle be running any takeover bid? Even my sympathies would be with QF if that was the case.
And Australia is the end of the line. There is nothing past its meagre population of 20 million people except McMurdo Base in Antarctica. One would have to ask, 'why'?
Last edited by Captain Dart; 9th June 2012 at 08:40.