I guess it's like one big happy family after reading this, it seems everyone knows each other or has met along the way.
Hrdlicka's first client at Bain in Australia in the late '90s was a thirty-something Alan Joyce, then in charge of Ansett's route network.
After the consultancy gig for Ansett ended, the pair stayed in touch and, more than a decade later, Joyce, who by this time was Qantas chief executive, offered her a job in 2010 as head of strategy and information technology.
Hrdlicka's predecessor at Jetstar, Bruce Buchanan, had a five-year stint at BCG, during which he led the team that prepared the business case for Jetstar. Joyce and former chief executive Geoff Dixon asked him to stay on at Jetstar for six months, and it turned into an eight-year stint at the budget airline.