QF management trained up a bunch of people, back 10 or so years ago, and bused them to EP training on blackened windowed buses in the middle of the night to be used as Strike Breakers when CC threatened strike action over Christmas.
I think they were issued King Gee trousers and Polo Shirts as the uniform.
Smoke and Mirrors.
Nothing happened.
Precedents that Lucky Charms is surely looking at :
Sabena and Swiss Air
Reasons for bankruptcy
[The reasons for SABENA's bankruptcy are numerous. One of the direct causes was Swissair not living up to their contractual obligations and failing to inject necessary funds into the company. This was because at the time Swissair was having its own financial problems. During the so-called "Hotel agreement", signed on July 17, 2001, Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt met with Swissair boss Mario Corti, who agreed to inject €258 million into SABENA. Mr Corti had made a terrible mistake as the sum was never paid, due to Swissair's own financial problems. The purchase of 34 new Airbus planes, imposed by the Swiss, was a burden SABENA could not cope with.
After the bankruptcy, a parliamentary commission in Belgium was established to investigate the demise of the airline. The Belgian politicians got a part of the blame; Rik Daems, who, at the time, was Minister of Public Enterprises and Participations, Telecommunication and Middle Classes, received most criticism due to his lack of effort. Swissair itself went bankrupt in October of that year.]
After the bankruptcy, Sabena restarted part of its operation through its subsidairy Delta Air Transport (DAT). Named it SN Brussels
Theres nothing to stop QANTAS shutting the asbestos filled doors and restarting the QANTAS "BRAND" under a subsidiary company. They own enough airlines to pick one and start up again on lower cost base.
Lucky Charms will run the company into the ground , say BANKRUPT, let the receivers come in and pay out the super payments, The "Abbott" will allow the company to restart as Australia needs a "National Icon" airline.
Call it "Trans Qantas Australian Styled Premium Airline Related Flying Machine Airways", give the 35000 unemployed a chance to regain their dignity by offering them the same job, in the same uniform (sans Kangaroo) but on less conditions then VOILA. Success. There's enough AN staff in senior management at QF that can talk them through the process.
Lucky Charms gets a fat cheque to go home and feed to his "wife" and then as the saviour of "Trans Qantas Australian Styled Premium Airline Related Flying Machine Airways" gets to retire and move back to LeprechaunLand. Maybe even open a pub in County Cork with Dixon and Clifford as board directors.
"The Italian" says HAHA I won, Branson sells the remainder to SG, NZ and the arabs and the Virgin Brand becomes Stralia's National Airline Icon.
The Aussie battler wins against big business.
See how far the boys can pee up the wall, Thats what its all about.