Our industry has been getting raped by governments for years. Its a cash cow and has an enormous input to the economy. I read an article that said that we are around 1.85 times more productive than other industries. 25 mil last year 50 mil this year for Virgin. What do we get for it? Nothing, not even a show bag.
If socialism continues in this country I think you might find we will see redundancies. Its time for the long term unemployed and the single mums to get up off the couch and chip in. The rest of us are getting up at 3am and sitting in peak hour on the way home.
I don't know if the 100 mil includes the purchase of the other two companies but if it does, combined with the carbon tax isn't probably as bad as it looks. Lets not forget Virgin hasn't had decades of free reign on corporate and government accounts so its a mighty big mountain to climb against the QF enormous machine.
Relishing in the misfortunes of colleagues is not normal by the way.