One of the rumours doing the rounds is that the consultants were brought in to investigate the costs of shutting down QF International entirely. 500 million was the rumoured figure. If it happens, that is highly unlikely to be announced until after the federal election as it would be politically explosive.
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I hope that rumour isn't true but what are qantas management thinking they are going to achieve by doing that? Are they intending on starting a new international airline from scratch by re-employing all the current qf staff, but on lower contracts or lower paid eba's?