Alan Joyce Shocks by taking SQ to SIN
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Alan Joyce Shocks by taking SQ to SIN
It's not his fault though, SQ was the only way for Joyce to get to SIN and back within the same day without spending a night.
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April 23, 2012
The Australian Financial Review Edition: Second
Copyright 2012. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.
The first Qantas A380, Nancy-Bird Walton, has finally returned to service after its hair-raising uncontained engine failure over Indonesia in November 2010.
Qantas boss Alan Joyce hitched a ride with Singapore Airlines up to Singapore (know thine enemy, or a necessity of route cuts?) where the aircraft was undergoing repairs. When the Irishman disembarked from his archenemy's flight, the Singapore girls took one look at his boarding pass and said "Alan Joyce? You're kidding".
Another passenger on the same flight came up to him and said "Did you know you look like Alan Joyce?" When Joyce nodded, the passenger asked "So, who are you then?"
The return to Australia went off without a hitch. With Joyce on board were the airline's head of operations Alan Milne and engineering executive Tim Gent, while hero captain Richard De Crespigny was back in the cockpit along with the rest of the flight and cabin crew from that fateful flight.
Joyce obviously chose the right SQ flight - journalists and Virgin Australia execs travelling to Toulouse, France, to collect the airline's fourth A330 (operating between Perth and the east coast) were offloaded from the Singapore Airlines flight in Sydney and forced to switch to Qantas. The new aircraft is returning to Australia with the carrier's boss John Borghetti on board.
April 23, 2012
The Australian Financial Review Edition: Second
Copyright 2012. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.
The first Qantas A380, Nancy-Bird Walton, has finally returned to service after its hair-raising uncontained engine failure over Indonesia in November 2010.
Qantas boss Alan Joyce hitched a ride with Singapore Airlines up to Singapore (know thine enemy, or a necessity of route cuts?) where the aircraft was undergoing repairs. When the Irishman disembarked from his archenemy's flight, the Singapore girls took one look at his boarding pass and said "Alan Joyce? You're kidding".
Another passenger on the same flight came up to him and said "Did you know you look like Alan Joyce?" When Joyce nodded, the passenger asked "So, who are you then?"
The return to Australia went off without a hitch. With Joyce on board were the airline's head of operations Alan Milne and engineering executive Tim Gent, while hero captain Richard De Crespigny was back in the cockpit along with the rest of the flight and cabin crew from that fateful flight.
Joyce obviously chose the right SQ flight - journalists and Virgin Australia execs travelling to Toulouse, France, to collect the airline's fourth A330 (operating between Perth and the east coast) were offloaded from the Singapore Airlines flight in Sydney and forced to switch to Qantas. The new aircraft is returning to Australia with the carrier's boss John Borghetti on board.
It's not his fault though, SQ was the only way for Joyce to get to SIN and back within the same day without spending a night.
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Between the Pilots and Engineers, probably fair to say any Qantas flight AJ is on is not leaving the gate on time. Maybe he is starting to get the picture.
On a positive, he now has a first hand experience of what International service is all about and has witnessed an engaged workforce.
On a positive, he now has a first hand experience of what International service is all about and has witnessed an engaged workforce.
Couldn't he have flown to MEL in the morning and picked up the Deathstar A332 service or didn't he want to have to pay for a beer? I assume he wasn't flying Y with SQ.
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Apparently he was going to fly Emirates but Olivia advised him of the fact EK have heaps of his old pilots flying for them! 
Sounds like another waste of QF money by this little gremlin.
Sounds like another waste of QF money by this little gremlin.
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Wise Choice Joice
Better product
Better Schedule
Most likely cheaper.
A prudent choice and acknowledges Sing Air superiority....well done
Any other airline CEO would've been sacked for endorsing the competition product.
Totally unprofessional and First Class no doubt
Better Schedule
Most likely cheaper.
A prudent choice and acknowledges Sing Air superiority....well done
Any other airline CEO would've been sacked for endorsing the competition product.
Totally unprofessional and First Class no doubt
