Gutless QANTAS
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Gutless QANTAS
https://www.news.com.au/travel/world...cf9755629e9f4d
What a gutless bunch of pricks QANTAS managment are. TAIWAN is NOT CHINA. TIBET is NOT CHINA. The disputed islands in the South China Sea are NOT CHINA.
CHINA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW!
What a gutless bunch of pricks QANTAS managment are. TAIWAN is NOT CHINA. TIBET is NOT CHINA. The disputed islands in the South China Sea are NOT CHINA.
CHINA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW!
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Qantas doesn’t sell tickets to Tibet or the South China Sea, and most of the UN (including Australia) recognises the PRC as the legitimate government of Taiwan. Bit hard to go against that when you want to do business in China!
So as a business leader what would you do? Cut of your nose to spite your face?
Look at the list of other airlines who have already changed, have you made online attacks against them?
So if Qantas said no........ Hmmmm your Beijing and Shanghai slots have been revoked? Hong Kong? Expansion into China and south east Asia. As a business leader one needs to think long term.
So I ask what would you have done?
Look at the list of other airlines who have already changed, have you made online attacks against them?
So if Qantas said no........ Hmmmm your Beijing and Shanghai slots have been revoked? Hong Kong? Expansion into China and south east Asia. As a business leader one needs to think long term.
So I ask what would you have done?
We don't even fly there, it's a codeshare with China Airlines
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Anyone doubting the trajectory of the 'relationship' with China that Australia sleepwalked itself in, ought get themselves a copy of Professor Clive Hamilton's book 'Silent Invasion'. This is the book dropped by two publishers, of course in no way would a 'friendly' trading partner attempt to influence anyone. That Australia has allowed Chinese influence to the level it has, pumping house prices with illicit cash has meant that this issue got little attention outside the sphere of Australia's security and intelligence organisation who unlike the various weasels at all levels of politics actually work in the national interest.
Give little Napoleon a break. He is a bully only when he is the bigger man. Was very happy to use company funds where it suited him as a social campaigner. He is a reflection of modern Australia, happy to take the money from a brutal dictatorship, as he was to ignore the dystopian elements relating to personal conduct in the UAE that he willing exposed his customers to.
Give little Napoleon a break. He is a bully only when he is the bigger man. Was very happy to use company funds where it suited him as a social campaigner. He is a reflection of modern Australia, happy to take the money from a brutal dictatorship, as he was to ignore the dystopian elements relating to personal conduct in the UAE that he willing exposed his customers to.
Why is it QF who are being attacked on this site when the reality is most governments (including Australia’s) and most other airlines and companies who trade with China have the exact same policy? Is it just an excuse for more QF bashing for any reason that exists throughout this forum?
QANTAS bashing it may be but a decade of totalitarian rule from that excuse of a CEO has created this sentiment. You’ll forgive people for having a hair trigger when it comes questionable decisions.
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Blitz and Rated De 1000% spot on. Dre don’t be so sensitive. No one is having a go at hard working QF Staff. This is all about what your boss and board have decided what your company stands for and doesn’t stand for at the behest of you and the rest of your colleagues. All with what seems zero accountability. Greed is king and AJ is a complete two faced little queen scared of China. No leadership at all except when talking up profits and turn around.
Bang on Dr Dre. BA, LH,Etihad, Malaysian, Garuda, Air Canada etc are but a few who have already done what Qantas has done. And don't forget EK - they banned their Taiwanese Cabin Crew from wearing the Taiwanese flag on their uniforms.
But hey, this isn't a Qantas or AJ bash...........
But hey, this isn't a Qantas or AJ bash...........
It’s not being sensitive it’s being accurate. This is the Australian government’s stance on Taiwan from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website:
So if you have a problem with how an Australian company refers to Taiwan then you should probably direct your malice toward Julie Bishop and DFAT as it is precisely in line with the Australian government’s guidance.
Comments refering to the CEO as a “gutless, feckless, fcukwit” or “two faced little queen” over this decision are naive of the diplomatic reality, naive of the commercial and demographic reality, crude and bigoted.
Past decisions by Qantas senior management have trashed the company and caused significant damage to my own career but these attacks are unjustified.
The Australian Government continued to recognise Taipei until the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1972. Australia’s Joint Communiqué with the PRC recognised the Government of the PRC as China’s sole legal government, and acknowledged the position of the PRC that Taiwan was a province of the PRC.
The terms of our Joint Communiqué dictate the fundamental basis of Australia’s one China policy - the Australian Government does not recognise the Republic of China (ROC) as a sovereign state and does not regard the authorities in Taiwan as having the status of a national government.
The terms of our Joint Communiqué dictate the fundamental basis of Australia’s one China policy - the Australian Government does not recognise the Republic of China (ROC) as a sovereign state and does not regard the authorities in Taiwan as having the status of a national government.
Comments refering to the CEO as a “gutless, feckless, fcukwit” or “two faced little queen” over this decision are naive of the diplomatic reality, naive of the commercial and demographic reality, crude and bigoted.
Past decisions by Qantas senior management have trashed the company and caused significant damage to my own career but these attacks are unjustified.
Keep it on topic folks. Look at the thread title.
The only real question for me is with which side do you empathize, the PRC government on the mainland, or the ROC government in Taiwan?
The only real question for me is with which side do you empathize, the PRC government on the mainland, or the ROC government in Taiwan?
Nunc est bibendum
Though when you decide to take a very public and high profile stand arguing ‘principles’ it does look a tad hypocritical when you decide to compromise them later on.
Not sure why they could not call it Taiwan? That’s what it is called in all the airports in mainland China.
What is the true danger to navigation is the constant calls the Chinese military make on 121.5 telling aircraft to get of their airspace. That is sometimes a long way from China when you can see the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, or Japan etc out the window.
They just take take take, no consideration for the rule of law most of the time.
What is the true danger to navigation is the constant calls the Chinese military make on 121.5 telling aircraft to get of their airspace. That is sometimes a long way from China when you can see the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, or Japan etc out the window.
They just take take take, no consideration for the rule of law most of the time.