Ken, your comments do not reflect the facts at the time - it was an organised
PR exercise to show the public that AJ was tough and decisive.
By management's own figures, the shutdown cost $190M (I believe that it was much more) and a further $60M was spent on subsequent legal expenses. The real cost was the extreme damage that was done to hundreds of thousand loyal Qantas passengers.
The lengths that Joyce went to to prevent the book about this dreadful act from being published is indicative of how deceitful he was to the public and shareholders. The shareholders should be outraged about the damage done and the reduction in share values.