Hmmm! Sorry to be a messenger bearing sad news, but don’t think the plan is to:
turn it back into what it was in the 1920's
Reading between the lines of what has been said during the recent Senate Inquiries and what is written by BCG's GM in today’s Australian, suggests to me that ‘The Plan’ is something along the lines of:
• Cost reductions to make Qantas domestic, (including QantasLink), profitable,
• Growing Jetstar domestically and internationally, and
• Using frequent flyer loyalty and joint service agreements to make available to the travelling public much of what Qantas International presently does.
But, as Ross Love points out (in no particular order) in his article,
'this won’t be easy.... it is about negotiating the future of the business, and something has got to give..... the required re¬structuring that will offer Qantas a chance to survive is not about negotiating the balance of returns to labour versus capital..... like it or not, employees and their representatives are in the same business as their management teams.]
He also states
'the transition can be negotiated with good will, to give some respect and time to those workers who would need to accept new ¬arrangements and conditions, or make other arrangements through proper redundancies.'
Please don’t shoot this tea leaf reading clairvoyant. Much better to make your views known to those who can influence the outcome, your support for a negotiated settlement.
In the immortal words of John Lennon - Give Peace a Chance.