Boe787,
Absolutely agree that you need that information to make a meaningful comparison - and it means comparing any airline on raw numbers is very difficult.
Will also alter the coordinators, supervisors, managers / employees ratio.
as when using contractors you will have more people in the first category and less in the second.
MstrCaution,
Agree some departments would have been closed over Xmas and the company operated. Im sure the company worked for a few weeks without marketing and HR, but try that over the long term.
Probably even the documentation and OH&S department, lets get rid of them too... hmm maybe not, I think Tiger tried that before
The fact that Qantas continued to run with a substantial staff on holidays shows the appropriate planning and systems were in place, not that those people are expendable.
That said in my dealing there does seem to be an awful lot of middle managers at Qantas