60 Minutes A380 story
Unless management at QF takes up the challenge of fixing the Qantas image by returning to a 'quality first' product then the slide will continue. Once the quality image returns, selling it hard on that basis to travellers is paramount. I'm sure a premium airline will attract travellers willing to pay a little extra for ultra safety, especially with business and bureaucrat customers. Trying to compete with cross subsidised and low cost carriers is to join the race to the bottom. Lobbying government to stop predatory overseas operators gaining free reign in the market is important in preserving Australian standards. Otherwise the price of a ticket will be the only consideration for travellers. Quality and marketing that quality should be the Qantas forte. Unfortunately poor management and bean counters have made it appear extremely ordinary to the public eye. Unhappy staff just adds to the 'ordinaryness', especially where it counts in the cabin where the customers are. Selling the message of 'great crews' is important; but in itself not enough. Keep kicking management arse! They truly deserve it. Where's that GD.....
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As the opener for AJ's week in the spotlight it was a good endorsement for the AIPA case even though the 60 mins story and production was weak.
Everyone wants a good pilot to fly their aircraft, but no one wants to pay them for it.
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I admire the crew for what they did, and hope if faced with a similarly complex event that I will acquit myself as well as they did.
But are they heroes? No, they were doing their jobs. And was the Captain the ONLY one who could have done so? I doubt it.
I found the stroy cliched & cringe-worthy.
But are they heroes? No, they were doing their jobs. And was the Captain the ONLY one who could have done so? I doubt it.
I found the stroy cliched & cringe-worthy.
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Everyone wants a good pilot to fly their aircraft, but no one wants to pay them for it.
How big that segment is? Don't know.
But are they heroes? No, they were doing their jobs. And was the Captain the ONLY one who could have done so? I doubt it.
As for the management of the airline, they have proven they are complete morons by declaring war on their employees BEFORE that story went to air. Fools.
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...Lobbying government to stop predatory overseas operators gaining free reign in the market is important in preserving Australian standards...
The public shouldn't pay for inefficiencies. Competition should lift performance, not provide an excuse.
Couldn't agree more Jack Ranga, I know my parents and their baby boomer friends are more than happy to pay a premium for a quality, safe, australian service. I'm sure there are plenty like them, yet somehow J* is the only way forward?
If that sorry excuse for journalism wasn't paid for by Rolls Royce with the support of Qantas, then I'm a fully qualified A380 driver currently training for a Virgin Galactic job.
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The experience that was on QF32 at the time of the incident was nothing but extrodinary! That is why passengers pay 'a little more' on Qantas because they know the quality of the flight crew has always been delicately chosen, trained exceptionally well and paid accordingly for it.
Captain Richard de Crespigny was a perfect example of what professionalism Qantas has behind the wheel of their aircraft... that type of experience you can't put a price on.
I will always pay more to fly Qantas, because you always get what you pay for!
Captain Richard de Crespigny was a perfect example of what professionalism Qantas has behind the wheel of their aircraft... that type of experience you can't put a price on.
I will always pay more to fly Qantas, because you always get what you pay for!
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Have to say admired his choice in boats. It certainly puts the Greens family floating gin palace to shame (aptly nicknamed the Mongrel), but wondered if he would have been better off floating around in a battered tinnie, if he had to go floating at all, what with pay rise in question...........
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Everyone wants a good pilot to fly their aircraft, but no one wants to pay them for it.
I was actually having a shot at airline management, not pax
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I thought the Captain/s and crew came across well.
It would have been a much better segment if Stefanovic was edited out completely. He really was quite nauseating.
It would have been a much better segment if Stefanovic was edited out completely. He really was quite nauseating.
"I am so proud of everyone and all the teams that helped that day. I was proud to be in command of that aircraft." - Captain Richard de Crespigny, QF32.
Yes. Precisely right. Precisely the pride and professionalism that Alan Joyce is trying to destroy and what we are trying to save.
Yes. Precisely right. Precisely the pride and professionalism that Alan Joyce is trying to destroy and what we are trying to save.
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Jack & mcgrath,
I was actually having a shot at airline management, not pax
I was actually having a shot at airline management, not pax
I hope that the pilots and engineers and cc etc, etc can save this airline in the way that they did when that mongrel Dixon tried to sell the airline knowing that it's assets would be stripped.
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Can't help wondering if Richard had landed straight away, like 1 hour earlier. With all that extra fuel (weight) on-board, would the aircraft have ended up on the green grass at the end of the strip.? If so, another feather in the cap for delaying the landing.!!
Any expert comments.??
Any expert comments.??
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I've had a lot of "tradies" around lately do work for me.
A vox populi of sorts is instigated.
Conversation gets steered around to Qantas and what they think.
Invariably the response is chillingly identical.
All are proud Aussies.
All have only ever supported Qantas.
Most travelled at least once a year for holidays.
Since all of Qantas' "incidents" ,no longer willing to risk the family.
Jingoism loses out, and Singair,Emirates,Etihad(insert another airline name here) wins out.
Unsolicited response from every tradie thus far is that Jetstar are sh*t!
Joyce is so out of his depth it's not funny any longer.
Then again I suppose it's not hard to get out of ones depth when one is so short .
A vox populi of sorts is instigated.
Conversation gets steered around to Qantas and what they think.
Invariably the response is chillingly identical.
All are proud Aussies.
All have only ever supported Qantas.
Most travelled at least once a year for holidays.
Since all of Qantas' "incidents" ,no longer willing to risk the family.
Jingoism loses out, and Singair,Emirates,Etihad(insert another airline name here) wins out.
Unsolicited response from every tradie thus far is that Jetstar are sh*t!
Joyce is so out of his depth it's not funny any longer.
Then again I suppose it's not hard to get out of ones depth when one is so short .
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and Singair,Emirates,Etihad(insert another airline name here) wins out.
Unsolicited response from every tradie thus far is that Jetstar are sh*t!
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Maybe he needs to be reminded of the SQ crash in Taipei that 'killed people" or the EK near-fatal accident in Melbourne etc...
Not mention the lucky escape for the QF at BKK and it's excursion onto the golf course that was also 'near-fatal'.