New CEO for Virgin Blue

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Reports suggest an ex Monarch laureate to takeover the mantle at Virgin blue.

Does her name ,Liz Savage,as quoted in the media, closely resemble her work rhetoric? ''She achieved great cost cutting at both easyJet and Monarch'' so goes the article.
How innovative.

If she was so good why has she been changing employers like her knickers? Or is an ever-changing work history ok for a certain few, but for the rest of us the same pattern of changing employers shows lack of commitment/ stability or whatever the term that they use, the supposed HR knowhow's?

The low cost model prides itself on cheap fares, only forgetting to disclose a little fact that the only way cheap fares are available is by having the staff subsidise the plebeians right to air travel (and the boards bonuses).

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Liz will take over as Chief Commercial Officer in March, not CEO

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[Cactusjack]

Spot on - Seems she will be a perfect fit then doesn't it ? In reality this is how VB have acted since almost day 1 of operation

Does her name ,Liz Savage,as quoted in the media, closely resemble her work rhetoric? ''She achieved great cost cutting at both easyJet and Monarch'' so goes the article.
How innovative.
If she was so good why has she been changing employers like her knickers? Or is an ever-changing work history ok for a certain few, but for the rest of us the same pattern of changing employers shows lack of commitment/ stability or whatever the term that they use, the supposed HR knowhow's?
The low cost model prides itself on cheap fares, only forgetting to disclose a little fact that the only way cheap fares are available is by having the staff subsidise the plebeians right to air travel (and the boards bonuses).

Correct -The good money is on Harrison. But don't panick, BG will be retained on a 'consultancy clause' from July 1, like most of the other gold digging management who have left VB will continue to recieve a nice little retainer,regardless of the fact that the value of the place has steadily dropped to below the tide line under his direction.

Looks like she'll be joining her old colleague Mr Harrison who is strongly rumoured to be VB's new CEO after resigning from Easyjet

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Well if she is coming to VB to trim it of excess fat the I feel for the staff. How do you streamline an operation that is already skin and bones in a lot of operational areas?

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Geoff Dixon could probably answer that. :hmm:

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Well if she is coming to VB to trim it of excess fat the I feel for the staff. How do you streamline an operation that is already skin and bones in a lot of operational areas?

Skin and bones?? Perhaps in Maintenance,Ramp,Flight Crews,Check-in,pretty much everywhere except 'The Village'. No shortage of ridiculous positions that exist solely for the purpose of keeping a bunch of 'lapdogs' employed who originally worked within the airport environment but managed to suck their way alongside Managers who should have been dumped back in 2002 at the latest.
Perhaps a new imported Senior team is what is required to trim and cull the deadwood roles and mates rates positions once and for all.After all,how many Operations Mangers/Ground Operations Managers/Operations Operations Managers and their tag along lapdogs do you need ? Take a look at the QF cuts as well as Tiger and Jetstar's airports and Management roles and you will see how a lean operation can be run. VB lost the plot years ago when it started creating jobs for mates that have the title 'Manager' or 'Specialist' attached to it.
Yes,maybe the frontliners are spread thin, but the conga line of mates rates employees is alive and thriving (or should I say festering) deep within the company. The sooner that decisions are made to get rid of the deadwood plus the members of Management over a multitude of departments who have ridden the company's value into the mire for almost 10 years, the better.

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Harrison? I don't think so. For one you couldn't afford him, two it would be a big step backwards from a company the size of EZY and three he wants to go to a FTSE 100 company which is a step up. VB is small fry compared to European operators.

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Dear MODERATOR, by moving this thread from the ''outside'' where we could have been perhaps enlightened with first hand knowledge, I suppose you forgot what will happen to it in the hands of the dununda brigade.
If you could return it to where it was originally posted, I would be very much obliged. Thank you.

A. Harrison-great man, he addressed issues that crew were unable to get from the previous postholder, an antipodean with a similar predisposition to that of the current incumbent. I can't see BG, organising roadshows, whilst wearing a cabin crew uniform and listening to people from across the business. He put pen to paper and listened.
He addressed the issues pertaining to flight crew fatigue and approved a roster for maximum crew utilisation whilst addressing fatigue at the same time. It can be done, without aircraft changes, lengthy waits at out-ports in delapated crew rooms and exit rows for positioning crews.Thats right exit rows not just for any crew traveling but especially crew that need to operate straight after a trans-continental duty positioning!

He's downfall was that he wanted to expand at a rate similar to the one that caused the credit crunch, for which the majority shareholder, Stelios, warned of even before anyone even contemplated it, and its risks, and opted for a slower expansion instead. Unlike BG's rhetoric.He was mocked in the media, but not for long, as the same financial editors instead focussed on what they know best- rearview commentary.

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Monarch? Didn't some pom bookmaker have them at the top of the list for bankruptcy? Sounds like some European operators did get fried after all.

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Yeah thats right and he had Qantas at 20 to 1 to go bankrupt too.

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and he wasn't far off, had the private debt deal gone through we would now have a Government owned carrier again...:}

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Harrison.....good luck to you all.

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Mr.Hat,

I'm sure our Irish friends will be chuffed to bits to hear you refer to Paddy Power bookmakers as a "Pom bookmaker"! Easy mistake for a Kiwi..... sorry , Aussie! :}

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No worries AEUENG - our equivalent i suppose is convict!

Slight thread drift but why did old mate give them a 4:1 chance of going bankrupt?