Farewell Events
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Brisbane
Age: 50
Posts: 230
Originally Posted by ECAMACTIONSCOMPLETE
Straight to the desert I’d say. I don’t think QF have the cash to splash flying an empty plane around the country for the sake of a farewell.
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 111
Buy your own coffee at gate 8 coffee shop, while you wave goodbye as it’s towed passed on its way to SIT? They will paused prior to the apron, for effect. Invite only of course. AJ will make a speech I’d imagine.
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: I prefer to remain north of a direct line BNE-ADL
Age: 46
Posts: 1,199
Put remote control on it and crash it into a desert just like the 707 years ago, that would be the ultimate send off, remove QF livery of course before the crash flight.
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: US
Posts: 10
Originally Posted by ruprecht
It’s just a jet. Many jobs are at stake.
Send it to the graveyard and don’t spend one more cent than necessary.
Send it to the graveyard and don’t spend one more cent than necessary.
There’s one very well overpaid job that’s safe for another 3 years. How about giving a little back to farewell Qantas’s true ‘Queen’.
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Australia
Posts: 626
Originally Posted by Chairmans Lounge
I’d say the B747’s place in our fleet earns her the respect of more than ‘just a jet’.
There’s one very well overpaid job that’s safe for another 3 years. How about giving a little back to farewell Qantas’s true ‘Queen’.
There’s one very well overpaid job that’s safe for another 3 years. How about giving a little back to farewell Qantas’s true ‘Queen’.
I’m all for sentimentality, just not when we’re in deep financial sh!t with jobs on the line.
Last edited by ruprecht; 3rd Jul 2020 at 01:02.
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: In a house
Posts: 400
I’m not getting involved in petty politics, but personally I think Alan is doing the best he can in the current circumstances. He’s also quite a reasonable guy in person.
Wouldn’t it be a wonderful gesture from him if he paid for the farewell of the 747 out if his own pocket? He certainly can afford it.
It would also bring those back to his cause that he lost sometime ago.
In fact imagine if the entire executive team chipped in?
Wouldn’t it be a wonderful gesture from him if he paid for the farewell of the 747 out if his own pocket? He certainly can afford it.
It would also bring those back to his cause that he lost sometime ago.
In fact imagine if the entire executive team chipped in?
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Australia
Posts: 104
I definitely have a grip on the current reality all Qantas staff face, this post isn't meant to take away any grievances QF staff are facing. Merely wanting to know what the go is or may be with the farewell of the 747. No need for ad hominems.
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: VIC - The Covid State
Posts: 100
Originally Posted by Turnleft080
Turn it into a fire tanker we need them.
Put the thing in a park on concrete blocks so the kids of tomorrow can view the shear size of it. I know their is
one at Longreach and Wollongong. SYD/BNE/MEL can fight for it. In 5 years time say, everyone will be saying we should of kept it.
Treat it like the British/French treat their concords. What say you AJ?
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: MEL
Posts: 178
I would have expected SYD-MEL and SYD-BNE would both be candidates but probably not a lot of confidence about MEL now given the sudden Covid-19 spike. Maybe they'll be more of a scenic flight, spend some lazy time looping over the harbour, maybe the BNE flight could swing over Longreach?
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Great South East, tired and retired
Posts: 3,494
Do it like Dick Smith once did:
Use the aircraft named Kingsford Smith
Leave from Kingsford Smith airport
Everybody on board is named Smith
Fly over every town in Oz that has Smith in its name.
Use the aircraft named Kingsford Smith
Leave from Kingsford Smith airport
Everybody on board is named Smith
Fly over every town in Oz that has Smith in its name.
