Today's events will take a few days to sink in for many in the media as the numbers were a bit of a shock.. already signs that $22.2 million in wages for Joyce so far as CEO are probably getting up some peoples nose's.
Not surprisingly, Joyce has become one of the most disliked chief executives since Telstra's Sol Trujillo.
But with the backing of the board and the airline's largest shareholder, Balanced Equity Management investment manager Andrew Sisson, who has stuck with the company through thick and thin, Joyce has managed to hang on.
In a series of focus groups conducted in February in Sydney's central business district, one of the participants said each of the eight people in his group agreed "Joyce and his team have ruined Qantas for their own ends" and "Qantas needs to heal the rift between its staff and management to gain more confidence and thus more patronage from the public".
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AJ was rattled by Chris Uhlmann's questions... long babbling answers over and over the same ground..
