Management put out a call on Sept. 13 offering pilots more money to work extra days, with management "not quite realising how serious it was," O'Leary told Reuters.
O'Leary made it Ryanair's trademark to treat pilots more like bus drivers than what he saw as the pampered rock stars of aviation's golden age.
What do you think is discussed at IATA management conferences? This IR model is a regular discussion workshop.
Australia is no different.
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.
That may be the case, but just because your management has an appalling
execution track record (indeed the region is littered with Joyce disasters) it does not mean that the strategy was not well established.