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Qantas denies bankruptcy rumours
Monday April 20, 2009, 8:55 am
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce concedes Jetstar has limited capacity to relieve its parent of profit pressure.
He was speaking after the national carrier downgraded its full-year 2009 profit forecast by 80 per cent.
Mr Joyce told ABC TV that the company was approaching the limit of its ability to transfer capacity to Jetstar in order to cushion the profit squeeze that led to last week's profit downgrade.
"We have done a lot of that in the last year. There is a limit to what we can do and I think we're getting to that limit," he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
"A lot of the problem markets now for Qantas are probably markets that Jetstar's not the right model for - the Los Angeles market as an example."
Qantas slashed its 2008/09 pre-tax profit guidance from $500 million to between $100 million and $200 million last Wednesday, and said it would retrench up to 1,750 staff - around five per cent of its workforce.
The airline will also ground planes and defer aircraft orders as heavy discounting takes its toll on yields amid a nose-dive in the demand for air travel since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September.
While Qantas Frequent Flyer, Jetstar and regional operations are still profitable, international operations - its biggest divisional earner - is leaking cash, especially at the front end of the planes.
"In the business class and first class - the premium cabins - we're seeing a drop internationally of over 20 per cent," Mr Joyce said.
"In economy, the volumes are actually holding. It's the yields that's the problem so that we're actually getting less in terms of airfares because there's a lot of discounting."
In a separate interview on Sky News, Mr Joyce said the airline's previous market forecast had allowed for a drop in premium traffic of between 20 per cent and 30 per cent, but the latest profit downgrade was due to fare discounts.
"Even in the last two weeks we've seen our competitors taking a 50 per cent discount on fares and we've matched (this) to remain competitive and that's causing our revenue to take a hit," he said.
But Mr Joyce flatly refuted claims that without Jetstar Qantas would be in danger of going bankrupt.
"Qantas is in no danger of going bankrupt - that's not where we are. What we're doing is managing ourselves through this environment and making sure we're healthy when we get through this."
Airlines around the globe have been cutting capacity and slashing jobs in order to preserve profit as the global economic crisis crimps demand for business and leisure travel.
Passenger numbers for Asia-Pacific carriers dropped almost 13 per cent in February, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) data.
The aviation industry globally was expected to report a $US4.7 billion ($A6.5 billion) loss this year, IATA said.
The organisation said the Asia-Pacific region would be hit the hardest by the economic slowdown, with carriers in the region accounting for more than one-third of the combined global loss.
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Source:By Alison Bell, AAP
Qantas denies bankruptcy rumours
Monday April 20, 2009, 8:55 am
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce concedes Jetstar has limited capacity to relieve its parent of profit pressure.
He was speaking after the national carrier downgraded its full-year 2009 profit forecast by 80 per cent.
Mr Joyce told ABC TV that the company was approaching the limit of its ability to transfer capacity to Jetstar in order to cushion the profit squeeze that led to last week's profit downgrade.
"We have done a lot of that in the last year. There is a limit to what we can do and I think we're getting to that limit," he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
"A lot of the problem markets now for Qantas are probably markets that Jetstar's not the right model for - the Los Angeles market as an example."
Qantas slashed its 2008/09 pre-tax profit guidance from $500 million to between $100 million and $200 million last Wednesday, and said it would retrench up to 1,750 staff - around five per cent of its workforce.
The airline will also ground planes and defer aircraft orders as heavy discounting takes its toll on yields amid a nose-dive in the demand for air travel since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September.
While Qantas Frequent Flyer, Jetstar and regional operations are still profitable, international operations - its biggest divisional earner - is leaking cash, especially at the front end of the planes.
"In the business class and first class - the premium cabins - we're seeing a drop internationally of over 20 per cent," Mr Joyce said.
"In economy, the volumes are actually holding. It's the yields that's the problem so that we're actually getting less in terms of airfares because there's a lot of discounting."
In a separate interview on Sky News, Mr Joyce said the airline's previous market forecast had allowed for a drop in premium traffic of between 20 per cent and 30 per cent, but the latest profit downgrade was due to fare discounts.
"Even in the last two weeks we've seen our competitors taking a 50 per cent discount on fares and we've matched (this) to remain competitive and that's causing our revenue to take a hit," he said.
But Mr Joyce flatly refuted claims that without Jetstar Qantas would be in danger of going bankrupt.
"Qantas is in no danger of going bankrupt - that's not where we are. What we're doing is managing ourselves through this environment and making sure we're healthy when we get through this."
Airlines around the globe have been cutting capacity and slashing jobs in order to preserve profit as the global economic crisis crimps demand for business and leisure travel.
Passenger numbers for Asia-Pacific carriers dropped almost 13 per cent in February, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) data.
The aviation industry globally was expected to report a $US4.7 billion ($A6.5 billion) loss this year, IATA said.
The organisation said the Asia-Pacific region would be hit the hardest by the economic slowdown, with carriers in the region accounting for more than one-third of the combined global loss.
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Source:By Alison Bell, AAP
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Journalistic Stupidity
What sort of moron makes a supposition like this?
Someone who has done absolutely no research whatsoever and posesses half a neuron that bounces around inside a totally vacuous skull.
Just when you think Australian journalism cant get any worse this nonsense appears and you realize it can.
Australian newspapers would have to the worlds most expensive bird cage liner
Someone who has done absolutely no research whatsoever and posesses half a neuron that bounces around inside a totally vacuous skull.
Just when you think Australian journalism cant get any worse this nonsense appears and you realize it can.
Australian newspapers would have to the worlds most expensive bird cage liner
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I know many will think it is inconceivable, totally out of logic that Qantas can suddenly run out of cash and go bankrupt.
Again, I ask who would have thought Lehman Brothers would have gone bankrupt?
AIG would go bankrupt (more cash than the entire QCC buildings can hold)
Bank of America (older than the oldest aircraft you can find in QF) brink of bankruptcy if not for taxpayers bailout
Citibank brink of bankruptcy if not for taxpayers bailout
General Motors that owns Holden, and SAAB amongst other things and itself also an investment grade car manufacturer, virtually bankrupt
These are very reputable organisation with over hundreds of years of profit making history.
This means you cannot make any more assumptions about anything. Anything can happen. There are no guarantees, not even Alan Joyce had openly said Qantas will never ever ever go bankrupt regardless.
He only said this is not what Qantas is facing now. (of course this could be something the airlines would be facing in the not too distant future, who knows?) This is not the same as saying it will NEVER ever happen.
Just because you don't want to see a national icon go bankrupt does not mean the government will automatically put tax payers money to prop up a Qantas that could possible go down on the basis of "nationalism" How many national assets have been sold without so much of a blink of an eye? No one here gives a **** that a profit seeking company wanting tax payers to prop them up. If Qantas does go bankrupt, don't even assume taxpayers will have sympathy. The fact is, most of the public do not like Qantas, most of them have a very low opinion of the kind of service it provides, the prices it charges and the profit it makes on top of that.
Again, I ask who would have thought Lehman Brothers would have gone bankrupt?
AIG would go bankrupt (more cash than the entire QCC buildings can hold)
Bank of America (older than the oldest aircraft you can find in QF) brink of bankruptcy if not for taxpayers bailout
Citibank brink of bankruptcy if not for taxpayers bailout
General Motors that owns Holden, and SAAB amongst other things and itself also an investment grade car manufacturer, virtually bankrupt
These are very reputable organisation with over hundreds of years of profit making history.
This means you cannot make any more assumptions about anything. Anything can happen. There are no guarantees, not even Alan Joyce had openly said Qantas will never ever ever go bankrupt regardless.
He only said this is not what Qantas is facing now. (of course this could be something the airlines would be facing in the not too distant future, who knows?) This is not the same as saying it will NEVER ever happen.
Just because you don't want to see a national icon go bankrupt does not mean the government will automatically put tax payers money to prop up a Qantas that could possible go down on the basis of "nationalism" How many national assets have been sold without so much of a blink of an eye? No one here gives a **** that a profit seeking company wanting tax payers to prop them up. If Qantas does go bankrupt, don't even assume taxpayers will have sympathy. The fact is, most of the public do not like Qantas, most of them have a very low opinion of the kind of service it provides, the prices it charges and the profit it makes on top of that.
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Joyce would be loving all this scaremongering
What a perfect excuse to freeze wages, shed more staff and demand more productivity. Maybe even a relaxation of the foreign ownership rules.
Yes the sky is falling, but not for the QF execs.
QF wont go under, it will emerge much leaner at the expense of all workers.
Hold on as it's going to be an interesting ride.
Yes the sky is falling, but not for the QF execs.
QF wont go under, it will emerge much leaner at the expense of all workers.
Hold on as it's going to be an interesting ride.
