All sounded so good back when "Alan was happy" announcing the EK/QF tie up ....
......and it was in the last thirty minutes before the announcement was made and still negotiating, that concessions not previously agreed to, (whatever they were) finally were, and got the agreement across the line.
The comment from Tim Clark in reference to that last thirty minute period suggested strongly that up to then, agreement had not been reached.
Could it be that that concessions that we see disadvantaging Qantas today were the ones agreed to at the last moment by Joyce?
This is a 5 year agreement, perhaps inescapable !!
Much more bad news for Qantas to come, I expect.