Why are we unsurprised.
He was just all ears on his visits around the country. What meaningful strategies did he talk about? I remembered he talked about us being too expensive, just too many of us, too picky about maintenance, too inflexible and the ALAEA too aggressive. He does seem like a nice bloke, brought in to do some dirty work. Under Nasty and Lowy QE will only face contraction.
No matter what volume or quality of work we acquit, there will never be a time that we reach that world standard 'benchmark' (comparisons are now being made against KLM, Southwest).
They've pretended to engage, that is, listen to our gripes, buy some new gear to make us feel good and believe we're moving forward, whilst, they plot downsizing or should I say 'rightsizing' of the LAME workforce. In the eyes of Exec management, we are nothing but thorns in their backside.
Cheer up.