By CAA's own admission they knew nothing about the QF restructure and significant changes until QF made the announcement?
Any significant change within an airline including senior management changes constitute and create a risk by their own nature. This is what QF has done.
So QF can just do as they please and the Regulator remains oblivious and helpless like a new born infant! QF make yet another large far fetching decision, just like the airlines grounding, and the Regulator is supposedly powerless to act or do anything?
On the contrary that is complete bull****e and the CAA most certainly could act but they choose not to. Scared and spineless to pick on somebody bigger than themselves. ( plus the Minister for Mascot wouldn't allow it).
I think the mere fact that a lot of unsavory issues have highlighted themselves over the past two years particularly at QF and no action by CAA again proves that the top layer have to go.
It is also interesting how in lone with QF's new structure there was lots of talk about the QF sales act and crap like that, but I don't recall hearing much at all raised about safety an risk that is naturally elevated during a significant change management period such as this?
Is 'safety' really 'first'?