Sadly starting to sound a lot like Ansett in a lot of ways, when they did make people redudant some of the better and more skilled people were the ones that left, leaving a lot of dead wood instead of the other way around, left some areas with no experience level which lead at times to mistakes like the ones bonvol explains.....also redundancy packages for people with 20 + years experience don't come cheap to the company either.....
The slide when it happens is pretty quick, AN went from making $150 million profit after tax in 98/99 to not existing a few years later.......lets hope QF learns from the AN experience and does it better. A few thousand people are depending on it!