Those calling for AJ to leave because he is cutting
jobs
need to realise that his appetite for market share is what is keeping as many jobs around as there are, if he was happy to focus on percentage profitability then he would simply have to slash 10,000 jobs, not 1,000 and outsource the balance.
People like me aren't calling for Alan Joyce to resign because of 1000 job losses. It's because he is heading down the path of making 30,000 people redundant by making continual bad decisions including -
- Pulling out of Frankfurt when it had load factors above 90%
- Handing the Adl and Per routes to Europe to Emirates
- Giving profitable Hnl sectors to Jetstar
- Blowing an additional $60m on Jetstar Japan because the wages bill could not be met
- Pretending he could break into the Hkg market forgetting that the Chinese know a fair bit about business themselves
- Red Q
- Spending what I have heard to be $200m on the new head offices in Syd
- Putting Jetstar fuel bills on Qantas
- Routing Qantas European customers through the sand pit
- Putting 8 hour delays in between the two Aus-Lhr sectors whilst pax sit in the sand pit
- Assuring that none of the Sin flights line up with viable connections
- Blowing $200m when he grounded the fleet wondering why many of these customers have not returned
- Running big boozy parties such as the one in Dubai for Politicians, some union leaders and his circuit of celebrities
- Driving the share price down from $3.50 to $1
- Delivering junk status to the Qantas credit rating
- Never once providing dividends to shareholders
- Telling people that new aircraft do not require as much maintenance
- Closing Avalon maintenance saying that there is not enough work when there is so much work that they would need to employ more people to complete it all
- Employing flight attendants in Thailand at $100 a week through labour hire outfits owned fully by Qantas
- Lying to people like me (said he would treat employees better than Geoff Dixon did)
- Handing the new 787 aircraft to Jetstar whilst the premium Qantas pax are still flying around in 767s
- Running 90% of the Groups advertising on Jetstar
- Allowing Jetstar pax to use the Qantas lounges and not charging Jetstar for the privilege
- Knowingly breaching workers contracts because the fines are less than the money he thinks he is saving (see ALAEA v Qantas Fed Court Oct 2013)
- Buying A380s in the wrong configuration
- Giving Jetstar the new A330s and returning them to Qantas when heavy maint checks are due
- Jetstar Pacific based in Vietnam, never turning a profit
- Jetstar Asia based in Sin, only marginal profit because they leased planes back to the Qantas Group
- Sooking like a girl when another carrier does exactly what he is trying to do in countless other Asian countries
- Adding managers in the same sections where he is making employees redundant
This clown is destroying Qantas. On the other hand Borghetti has increased employment form 6500 to 9000 and constantly grown the Virgin brand.