There is no one in Qantas IR who was around in 2003. Not a soul. Heck, even Joyce himself wasn’t long in QF at that stage.
There is no way they set up QF NZ domestic as a back door way to introduce Jetconnect into the mainline domestic structure. They set it up hoping they could take on AirNZ. They discovered the brand didn’t work but the Jetstar brand might. When Qantas NZ started JQ wasn’t working in Aus let alone thinking about exporting it anywhere. When QF NZ didn’t work that’s when they decided to use it on the Tasman. Now that they want more utilisation out of the airframes they’ve decided to make this move. There are barely any managers that have beeen in QF in 2003 with the ability to influence those decisions.
What has happened is that Management have responded to different situations with a ‘what now’ attitude. The decisions out of those questions have been poor for mainline crew but it’s bordering on delusional to suggest that the people who burned billions on Jetstar HK, JQ Japan, JQ Pacific, JQ Asia, Red Q, and so on are suddenly Machiavellian geniuses when it comes to mainline IR? You’re giving Joyce et al that much credit? Really?
Last edited by Keg; 21st Dec 2017 at 21:19.
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