Qantas stand down 20,000 employees till end of May

[Maggie Island]

Originally Posted by SOPS

It’s just occurred to me. The guru GT seems to have been very quiet on the Qantas layoffs .

He’s definitely featured in a few Perth news segments lately

[0ttoL]

Originally Posted by Buster Hyman

Yes, thanks for that.

I'll see your "MSN" source & raise you the Coles Careers site, which is listing 768 jobs just now...Nationwide.

https://search.colescareers.com.au/cw/en/listing/

Even Coles themselves are saying 5,000 new team members. (Casuals!!)
https://www.colesgroup.com.au/media-...-boost-service

[Chris2303]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

"we can start to rebuild the industries that made Australia great"

Name two.............

Sheep and Holden?

[Chris2303]

Originally Posted by fdr

1. That he claims responsibility for all the winning that the world is seeing today? (I for one am getting tired of his "Whining")
2. That Corona Virus (A.K.A. "just a flu") is a Hoax!
3. That his really smart uncle John has the answer.
4. That "who knew that government was so big, I mean, big government is so big.... who knew"
5. That a new cut in medicare and medicaid will assist those that are down to their last half dozen golf courses.
6. That he is suspenderising "Habitat Corpuscles" for the duration, election 2020 is not needed, Vlad says he won 110% of the vote, and that's good enough for me!
7. N/A
8. Ans: C
9. All of the above
10. kleen coal is the answer, wash it so its shiny nicy purty.

It's not the Corona virus as far a trump is concerned - it's the Chinese Virus

[SRFred]

Meanwhile in todays AustralianQantas chief executive Alan Joyce has warned Scott Morrison not to nationalise airline competitor Virgin Australia, saying he cannot pick winners and losers.

“That would be completely unfair. We would be competing against the federal government,” Mr Joyce told Sky News on Friday morning.

“It has to treat the aviation sector the exactly same.”

and

Air NZ is being lent $900 million and

As a condition of the loan, Air New Zealand cancelled an $NZ124 million interim dividend payment to shareholders. It will also not pay dividends while the loan facility is in place.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...73787b68e7e8be

[orangeboy]

I noticed Qantas has deferred a $210 dividend till Sept. I know it's been declared, but surely this can be cancelled if 20,000 staff are going to be LWOP?

[Kiwiconehead]

Originally Posted by SOPS

The guru GT seems to have been very quiet on the Qantas layoffs .

Chairman's lounges are closing, no cash, no comment

[Yarra]

Originally Posted by What The

Opinion piece.
Amazing that Joyce’s last act after stealing $100 million from the company is to bring it to its knees in its Centenary Year.
Imagine if the money spent on share buybacks to inflate the share price to protect Executive wealth had been used to retire debt, buy aeroplanes and save for a rainy day.
This QANTAS executive will go down in history as the most corrupt, inept and narcissistic group in the history of the airline. They killed Ansett. Now QANTAS.
After the employees save the airline through their burning of leave and entitlements there HAS to be a clean out of the Board and Exec.
About time they were brought to account.

The current QF Management did not kill AN. Joyce was a non exec member of the company and so too were others who joined QF after the collapse. Look no further than the two main shareholders following the loss of control by Ansett himself. Both used AN as a cash cow, that was the fundamental reason for it’s eventual collapse. That reason then aided by poor management

[Ozgrade3]

So we have wiped put our airline industry, decimated our economy......for 6 deaths. By that measure shouldn't we ban cars immediately as we frequently have more than 6 fatalities on the roads in a single day.

Should we not close our borders permanently to keep hiv/aids out?Global HIV statistics

• 24.5 million [21.6 million–25.5 million] people were accessing antiretroviral therapy (end ofJune 2019).
• 37.9 million [32.7 million–44.0 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2018).
• 1.7 million [1.4 million–2.3 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2018).
• 770 000 [570 000–1.1 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses (end 2018).
• 74.9 million [58.3 million–98.1 million] people have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).
• 32.0 million [23.6 million–43.8 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).

[machtuk]

Originally Posted by Ozgrade3

So we have wiped put our airline industry, decimated our economy......for 6 deaths. By that measure shouldn't we ban cars immediately as we frequently have more than 6 fatalities on the roads in a single day.

Should we not close our borders permanently to keep hiv/aids out?Global HIV statistics

• 24.5 million [21.6 million–25.5 million] people were accessing antiretroviral therapy (end ofJune 2019).
• 37.9 million [32.7 million–44.0 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2018).
• 1.7 million [1.4 million–2.3 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2018).
• 770 000 [570 000–1.1 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses (end 2018).
• 74.9 million [58.3 million–98.1 million] people have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).
• 32.0 million [23.6 million–43.8 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).

Don't get me started Oz! I agree! This whole mess is due panic and hysteria originally stirred up by the grubby media! The venerable & weak need protecting for sure but NOT at the cost of our economy which is now decimated! What's the point in having healthy people when they are unable to sustain life anyway! We sure do live in a fckued up society!

[blubak]

Originally Posted by Bad Adventures

That’s it for the remaining 747’s. They’ll never fly again.

yes agree with this,why would you put them onto storage & then fly them again considering they were all being disposed of later this year.

[Sunfish]

You will fly what you can keep airworthy. That might not be much thanks to outsourcing.

[CamelSquadron]

Originally Posted by What The

Opinion piece.
Amazing that Joyce’s last act after stealing $100 million from the company is to bring it to its knees in its Centenary Year.
Imagine if the money spent on share buybacks to inflate the share price to protect Executive wealth had been used to retire debt, buy aeroplanes and save for a rainy day.
This QANTAS executive will go down in history as the most corrupt, inept and narcissistic group in the history of the airline. They killed Ansett. Now QANTAS.
After the employees save the airline through their burning of leave and entitlements there HAS to be a clean out of the Board and Exec.
About time they were brought to account.

What a........

"Imagine if the money spent on share buybacks ....had been used to ....buy aeroplanes"

Fat lot of good that would do right now when aircraft are grounded.....Think before you type!!!

Those funds were being returned to shareholders - if they had not been used to buyback shares they would have been used to pay dividends - either way the cash leaves the company. QF had a target optimal debt level - any surplus funds are returned to shareholders. It turns out that QF debt level had dropped well below its targetted debt level - so it is in better shape than it otherwise would be.

Finally - employees are not saving the company by burning all their leave and entitlements - the company still has to pay out the cash for those. What employees are doing is SAVING THEIR JOBS. Because the alternative is to make the employees redundant or send them home on LWOP.

You know nothing "What The" !!!!

[Berealgetreal]

Interesting comparison HIV and Covid-19. Contagion a touch different..

All the media’s fault, I think not.

[What The]

Dear Camel Angel,
In response to your diatribe.
You missed the save for a rainy day bit.
The employees ARE the company you shiny panted dropkick.
YOU KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN WHAT YOU ARE TOLD BY DEAR LEADER.

[Gin Jockey]

3 x qantas maggots being ferried from melb to Avalon today.

[CamelSquadron]

Originally Posted by What The

Dear Camel Angel,
In response to your diatribe.
You missed the save for a rainy day bit.
The employees ARE the company you shiny panted dropkick.
YOU KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN WHAT YOU ARE TOLD BY DEAR LEADER.

Ah ok, so lets apply the same standards to you.

So you have been busily saving for a rainy day and must have put all your income into retiring your debt. So you should sail through this situation comfortably. Given you believe you are the company and you have been saving for a rainy day, we can expect you to put your hand in your own pocket and put some money back into your company.

Given this fantastic situation you are in. you get my vote to be our LEADER.

Aside from the above rubbish, best wishes to everyone to get through this terrible situation.

[What The]

I am glad you edited that.
The first draft was terrible.

I will be putting money into my company. It is called my family.

Thank you for your kind wishes and it didn’t have to be this bad if those running the show weren’t so in it for themselves.

[SecretAngel]

Originally Posted by Ozgrade3

So we have wiped put our airline industry, decimated our economy......for 6 deaths. By that measure shouldn't we ban cars immediately as we frequently have more than 6 fatalities on the roads in a single day.

Should we not close our borders permanently to keep hiv/aids out?Global HIV statistics

• 24.5 million [21.6 million–25.5 million] people were accessing antiretroviral therapy (end ofJune 2019).
• 37.9 million [32.7 million–44.0 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2018).
• 1.7 million [1.4 million–2.3 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2018).
• 770 000 [570 000–1.1 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses (end 2018).
• 74.9 million [58.3 million–98.1 million] people have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).
• 32.0 million [23.6 million–43.8 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).

Two questions:
1. What is 3% of 25m people in Australia?
2. What is 3% of 7.7b people globally?

[Ozgrade3]

On the Easter weekend, approximately 25 people are going to die on the roads. We know this. It happens every Easter Long Weekend. We must preserve all life, at any cost. Therefore I demand that during this time, use of any road for driving of any wheeled vehicle (including bicycles) be prohibited. Even walking across a road should be outlawed and made a punishable offense. It will be mandatory to sit on your couch and not move. Anyone caught outside their house should be immediately arrested and taken to the nearest police cell for their own safety and remain there for 2 weeks. If that sounds like a silly idea, we have decimated our economy and vaporised hundreds of thousands of jobs,............ for 6 deaths. Should not a possible 25 deaths in 4 days, that we can accurately predict, trigger far more draconian measures?????