Had a bit of a think about this role of CEO & in this case AJ & his role with QF.
Sure he has a statutory role as it's a pole position within any Co like QF.
Looking up the exact meaning of CEO I read amongst other responsibilities the one or two words in this case that stands out the most as far as the human element of the role is concerned & that is "motivates employees". Now lets have a look at those words ("in just terms", Darryl Kerrigan/Charles Tingwell, "The Castle") "motivates employees". Is it fair to say that the core business in this case an Airline is to move people from A to B with equipment required for the task at hand & does that include the Employees? Obviously it does to us workers at the bottom of the food chain but does it to the likes of a CEO such as AJ? It's obvious that the man is almost contemptible in his actions of late manipulating the only thing that can be so & that's the employees of the business with almost gay abandonment (not pun intended either).
Lets look at his options here. He can't get cheap planes, he can't get cheap fuel, he can't get the Carbon Tax at this stage removed he also can't cut too many costs for maintenance to the point where it's almost non existent & all the other associated costs that come with running an Airline wouldn't be too negotiable either I'd say but again the man behind the steering wheel, the man swinging the spanners the guy at the check in counter all the way down to the guy sweeping the shop floor is where AJ can cut, trim & remove altogether in order to get out of this mess he has put QF in.
The question is still a tenuous one, who would or could take over from AJ as CEO & turn around the Airline without the need to remove so many of QF's workforce with the same set of conditions as above? Remember the workforce is the only avenue to reduce costs & working for lower wages won't cut it either as those same workers have still got to live in the current ever increasing cost world so only paying 80% of yr next rates bill doesn't work.
It's obviously far more complex than most of us could understand here but there are some basic core reasons as to why we find a once proud Airline now on it's knees so can a new CEO fix/change that?
Thoughts guys?
Wmk2