Dixon To Retire Early
short flights long nights
Sorry..just to clarify a point..QF is still operating 737-400?!?
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The Fat Controller
Putting PG in charge of QF would be like putting a diabetic in charge of a candy store.
This guy has zero interpersonal skills and is even more removed from whats happening in the frontline than Scrotum Face(if that possible)
Il Duce at least has some concept of the mess.He is QF through and through and has a longhaul skillset.But alas he just does as he is told and is part of the executive wealth creation scheme.
It would be best if Scrotom Face's replacement was external and with experience in successfully running an airline
This guy has zero interpersonal skills and is even more removed from whats happening in the frontline than Scrotum Face(if that possible)
Il Duce at least has some concept of the mess.He is QF through and through and has a longhaul skillset.But alas he just does as he is told and is part of the executive wealth creation scheme.
It would be best if Scrotom Face's replacement was external and with experience in successfully running an airline
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Who Best???
So who could be an ideal replacement for Dixon?
Might I suggest a KIWI !
I believe Rob FYFE would be a good CEO for Qantas; and why?
May I suggest Gary TOOMEY!
I know, I know, I can hear the shrieks of "no bloody way" from a lot of ex Ansett people, but one must admit that Gary got handed the mother of all "hospital passes" from that "guru of airline management", Sir Rod and his employer News Corp'.
Gary Toomey was acknowledged as the brains behind Qantas's financial wellbeing and a wiz at fuel hedging before he made the unfortunate move to Ansett / AirNZ.
Comments anyone..........!
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Might I suggest a KIWI !
I believe Rob FYFE would be a good CEO for Qantas; and why?
- He would be "new blood" and could very likely, immediately gain the confidence and support of the Q employees, rebuilding their morale and SPIRIT and overcoming the present animosity that a large number of employees have towards the present Q Management.
- He is untainted by the APA debacle!!
- He is a CEO that adheres to the philosophy that the most important people in an organisation that deals with the public, are the EMPLOYEES!!!
- He is an Engineer, who knows the importance of that group to an airline.
- He has, from all reports, brought AIR NZ back from the brink and has the total support and loyalty of the employees (somewhat akin to the management of SOUTHWEST in the US).
May I suggest Gary TOOMEY!
I know, I know, I can hear the shrieks of "no bloody way" from a lot of ex Ansett people, but one must admit that Gary got handed the mother of all "hospital passes" from that "guru of airline management", Sir Rod and his employer News Corp'.
Gary Toomey was acknowledged as the brains behind Qantas's financial wellbeing and a wiz at fuel hedging before he made the unfortunate move to Ansett / AirNZ.
Comments anyone..........!
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Well a Kiwi is doing a bloody good job (so far) with the Wallabies so why not give a Kiwi the top job at QF...anything is better than Dixon!
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Toomey ...Much Maligned
Gary Toomey was a scapegoat for the failure of Ansett.
There were political mechanications behind the scenes that resulted in this great airlines demise.
If Toomey had got the gig at QF it would not be in the ****e that it now finds itself.
Toomey is a lot brighter and a lot better educated than Scrotum Face.
Toomey would actually have been able ot manage the revenue better in order to generate greater profits rather just cost cut.
Any clown can cost cut..its knowing when to stop cost cutting that requires management agility.
We are now seeing the results of cost cutting gone way too far.
Al Dunlap would be proud of Scrotum Face.... his cost cutting almost succeeded in destroying Sunbeam.
Dixon and Dunlap are both one dimensional in their ability to manage and both are dysfunctional .
There were political mechanications behind the scenes that resulted in this great airlines demise.
If Toomey had got the gig at QF it would not be in the ****e that it now finds itself.
Toomey is a lot brighter and a lot better educated than Scrotum Face.
Toomey would actually have been able ot manage the revenue better in order to generate greater profits rather just cost cut.
Any clown can cost cut..its knowing when to stop cost cutting that requires management agility.
We are now seeing the results of cost cutting gone way too far.
Al Dunlap would be proud of Scrotum Face.... his cost cutting almost succeeded in destroying Sunbeam.
Dixon and Dunlap are both one dimensional in their ability to manage and both are dysfunctional .
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Michael Klim the great Australian 100 metre sprinter once said that "his mum could train Ian Thorpe to win a Gold medal at the Olympics".
Is it really that different to running Qantas?
Is it really that different to running Qantas?
I think I caught out a certain person being economical with the truth about Ansett just before it collapsed.
But to be fair, he may not have known he was talking bull**** when I alleged in public that cracks in the AN767's were the tip of the iceberg and a very serious matter.
His reply: "You are absolutely wrong."
Good luck if that's what you get. I also wonder if QF will be plundered like Ansett was as it went under?
But to be fair, he may not have known he was talking bull**** when I alleged in public that cracks in the AN767's were the tip of the iceberg and a very serious matter.
His reply: "You are absolutely wrong."
Good luck if that's what you get. I also wonder if QF will be plundered like Ansett was as it went under?
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QF is being plundered as we type. It has been an on going process for a while now. Total focus has been on the shareholder value (with no effect) while the structure required to keep an airline operating safely and successfully for the long term has been eroded.
The sooner QF management change direction the less long term damage done.
The sooner QF management change direction the less long term damage done.
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Peter (777's are old technology) Gregg would be an ongoing disaster for
Qantas as CEO. He's backed Dixon all the way in his war against mainline.
Staff disengagement would accelerate, if that's possible, when people realize that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, just several more years for Gregg to finish what Dixon has started.
Even Geoffery Thomas alluded to this in a magazine article recently.
The only hope for this company is for someone from outside the poisoned atmosphere of the place,to come in..throw open the windows..and finally clear the stench of Dixon's reign forever...Amen.
Qantas as CEO. He's backed Dixon all the way in his war against mainline.
Staff disengagement would accelerate, if that's possible, when people realize that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, just several more years for Gregg to finish what Dixon has started.
Even Geoffery Thomas alluded to this in a magazine article recently.
The only hope for this company is for someone from outside the poisoned atmosphere of the place,to come in..throw open the windows..and finally clear the stench of Dixon's reign forever...Amen.
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I figure it's going to be (God help us) PG, as well. All of a sudden he is writing emails to the whole company. The other week he wrote some crap about staff travel, and just today he wrote to everyone in the company to congratulate us on a new finance system. Big f**king deal! Like in the middle of the worst disruptions in the company history, he has got time to write to everyone about a finance system! Yep, he's got the job in the bag.
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Don't rule out John just yet. He knows more about our business and has been in the game a little longer. Don't forget that he has been vocal in the press lately aswell. (publicly requesting engineers call off OT bans and the alleged "go slow").
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Position,Position
The Fat Controller and Il Duce are jockeying for position with Scrotum Faces imminent departure.
My bet is neither will get the job but rather someone who is a mate of Clifford's.
Just another Magic circle club with new members
My bet is neither will get the job but rather someone who is a mate of Clifford's.
Just another Magic circle club with new members
My limited and from the outside view is that Mr. Dixon's behaviour will be emulated by at least the three or four top layers of management. Anyone who has wanted to "get ahead" in management (I mean gain promotion and further their career) will have had to have done this. Mr. Gregg's company wide announcement if his own success in installing a new general ledger system is typical.
Or, to put it another way, anyone in senior management who represented a challenge to Dixon and his ilk, for example, by exemplifying the natural authority won by having a high degree of airline experience and technical knowledge, as opposed to formal authority, will have been removed during Dixon's reign. I've watched it happen before. The idiots get into power, the good people then get forced out in order to stop them constantly showing the idiots up.
So what does it tell us if an internal appointment of a Dixon clone is made?
Well, it tells us that the Chairman and Board aren't in control, and that the wool has been pulled over their eyes. It also tells us that QF's days are numbered. It tells us that because it demonstrates that QF Board and Management see the staff as an obstacle to QF profitability, not a valuable resource.
....And that attitude tells us exactly what the real strength of QF is - it's ability to wrap the Government of the day around it's little finger, and make it do QF's bidding, especially maintaining QF's stranglehold on the Australian travelling public.
Or, to put it another way, anyone in senior management who represented a challenge to Dixon and his ilk, for example, by exemplifying the natural authority won by having a high degree of airline experience and technical knowledge, as opposed to formal authority, will have been removed during Dixon's reign. I've watched it happen before. The idiots get into power, the good people then get forced out in order to stop them constantly showing the idiots up.
So what does it tell us if an internal appointment of a Dixon clone is made?
Well, it tells us that the Chairman and Board aren't in control, and that the wool has been pulled over their eyes. It also tells us that QF's days are numbered. It tells us that because it demonstrates that QF Board and Management see the staff as an obstacle to QF profitability, not a valuable resource.
....And that attitude tells us exactly what the real strength of QF is - it's ability to wrap the Government of the day around it's little finger, and make it do QF's bidding, especially maintaining QF's stranglehold on the Australian travelling public.
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....And that attitude tells us exactly what the real strength of QF is - it's ability to wrap the Government of the day around it's little finger, and make it do QF's bidding, especially maintainning QF's stranglehold on the Australian travelling public.
Capitalism & the free market did not win, we actually live in a Soviet style planned economy of government protected monopolies, with new the ruling class the Geoff & Sol's, who's sole business acumen consists of political lobbying & manipulation.
Trotters in the trough, f#ck everyone else.
Before we get back to balance, we may see dramatic changes in politics, as well as in business and finance.
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Dixon and his Ilk
The last ten years have seen dysfunctional individuals like Dixon climb to the top of large corporations.They have had very little business acumen but were feted by the markets and the media as the hard men who made the tough decisions.
Unfortunately the decisions they made were the wrong decisions.
They dont suffer from these poor decisions but we do.
Rising interest rates,rising fuel prices,falling consumer confidence and the destuction of wealth through falling asset prices.
We never ever learn...Dixon is another Gordon Gekko.
In another 10 to 15 years when this current mess has been sorted out other dixons and Gekkos will gain the ascendancy.
These swine flourish because of greed.
They never pay the piper.
It is galling that Dixon will walk away from this mess he created at Qantas unscathed.
Somewhere out there is hopefully a bus with dixons name on it
Unfortunately the decisions they made were the wrong decisions.
They dont suffer from these poor decisions but we do.
Rising interest rates,rising fuel prices,falling consumer confidence and the destuction of wealth through falling asset prices.
We never ever learn...Dixon is another Gordon Gekko.
In another 10 to 15 years when this current mess has been sorted out other dixons and Gekkos will gain the ascendancy.
These swine flourish because of greed.
They never pay the piper.
It is galling that Dixon will walk away from this mess he created at Qantas unscathed.
Somewhere out there is hopefully a bus with dixons name on it