Speaking of Strong as if his death may finally allow the righting of some evil wrongs is a strange course of action.
We can of course allow unions and vested interest groups (pilots included) to have their dream airline but the fact is QAN is a business.
But anyone with half a brain knows that pilots fly, managers manage, baggage handlers handle baggage, cabin crew man cabins and union leaders feather their nests.
Unless we choose to proceed down the US route where airlines and more recently car companies are considered strategic and allowed to act as sheltered workshops for bloated uncompetitive workforces and work practises until insolvent and the Government periodically props them up then pragmatic men of conviction like Strong and those that have followed him are going to have to make hard decisions.
His success in dragging QAN into the modern world has created myriad jobs and opportunites in aviation for reeducated workforces at QAN at Virgin, Tiger and Jetstar and meant that QAN is the only profitable airline in the world exposed to real market forces.
His later success at Woolies, IAG and MotoGp are testament to his acumen.
RIP