Originally Posted by
The Bullwinkle
I'll call bull**** on this one.
JB was the one who introduced A330's and it's been a total cluster f@&k since day one, and cost millions and millions of dollars.
He's also responsible for the lowest level of staff engagement in the history of the airline.
It was bad under Godfrey; he's taken it to a completely new low!
... on top of that what did he get... the oldest most dilapidated rubbish he could find from the desert (XFA, XFB) that were constantly plagued with reliability problems and eventually dispensed with... not good choices by any measure. Many other similar stupid moves as well, Sabre instead of Altea, no automated roster/day of operations software like the mob down the road... regardless of the situation a good CEO can turn things around... what he has 'achieved' is a unit cost that is now higher than QF's (and QF's has come down below VA's while VA's has climbed), EBAs that deliver no savings like, I am told, the Ground one. No, much of this is his own work. Contrast that with Eddington for example, came into Ansett, sold non-core assets and started to get rid of the duplication and turned it around in about 3 years and was on track to turn it into a really viable business until NZ stepped in - he did the same thing at BA and was a sound steward of CX for many years, respected in the industry. But you know, Rod doesn't go around blowing his own trumpet and contributing to FB memes with one-liners, he is just an intelligent, engaging and capable leader who knows how to treat people and motivate them - JB is not.