Captain QANTAS
 

Attention Dixon fans:

As most of you lot probably don't read the Financial Review, I thought I should draw your attention to today's feature in the AFR Magazine.

Subtitled "Captain QANTAS" it reveals key details of "aviation's hard man, a knockabout guy with loads of larrikin charm...."
Nearly 10 pages of glossy hagiography!

Something there for all Dixon lovers.

Unfortunately not available online, but at only $2.70 a copy it is the best antidote known to medicine for those pilots suffering from low blood pressure!!:D

Read it and enjoy.
Swingwing out.

Since its the AFR I guess its not a fluff piece for the masses. I hope it highlights that by the time Dixon is finished with APA, he will be enriched to the tune of over 100 million dollars extra for doing no more than he is doing now..... screwing the Qantas brand.

.....worth a read
 

I have just trawled my way thru todays AFR BOSS article.

Can't help but to cynically think that timing of all this is just a bit too cute!!!

• APA bid on the brink of collapse.
• Dixon, Jackson et al ---necks are on the block if this deal goes down.

mmmmmmmmmmmm:rolleyes:

The photo's, script look like they have brought in one of Singo's top PR spin-team, as it reads like an election article.

The bit I loved was the bit about Toomey being jacked off about the size of his Hotel room in LHR.
If this is what people at this level "fight" about , then I for one reckon the sooner they punt this " team"....the better.

Who knows , this article may turn out to be an epitath???:hmm:

For WHO ??????

Time will tell over the next few weeks.

Fair go. You have to remember Toomey is a big bloke.

It's in the glossy magazine not the AFR proper, so it is certainly a fluff piece.

Absolutely!;)

Where is the big b#%&!*&d now ??

Who F'ing cares!

Stubby Jumbo, Absolutely correct! This is nothing but well-timed spin to try saving Dixon's a#$e as the deal goes over the cliff. He's staring at going from $60M to being sacked, hence a warm fluffy piece to try preventing the latter.

Read this: http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/...e#contentSwap1

Very enlightening. Much nearer to the truth. Conflicts of interest, Dixon's doom saying, flogging off QF aircraft options to other airlines - it's all there.

Put the AFR glossy mag article in context with all this and you realize what a carefully timed PR spin job it is...... :ugh:

Well Researched ..Truth
 

Thanks Ron and Edna.
The SMH piece is absolutely on the money.
I could never understand why Dixon continually talked QF down.
Why wasnt he taken to task over that?
The treatment of employees in general has been appalling.
This treatment is about ot belt him over the head.
In particular the pilot shortage for future growth.
Try negotiating with the pilots now....(Dixon)you prigg.

2007..A perfect year...If
 

This QF buyout falls over
Dixon and Whacko Jacko are ousted(together with a few others)
Rudd gets elected.
What a wonderful world it would be.....Ohhhhh Yeahhhh!

How true is that.

How much is that Dicko looking after his own pocket?

Apart from Rudd.

I loved the bit in the AFR article about how Dixon told his kids he was giving his "vast fortune" (the $60M) away to a charitable trust:
Hmmm. No discussion at all about how if they give that money away it becomes a $60M TAX DEDUCTION and that the Dixon family trusts will probably never pay tax again? Riiiiiiight. Just makes you feel so warm and fuzzy about the bloke, doesn't it? Makes you even believe he's just a poor, misunderstood, knockabout guy.

And I'm really Julia Gillard. :hmm:

Agree with the above comments.

The SMH article today is a real ball-tearer!!!

( No wonder the Dame only speaks to the Fin and the Australian)

My only concern is that if this bid does sink, then there will be reprisals and beatings as retribution for the loss of ..."kick backs":eek:

Dixon and his mates will be using their favourite saying again:

DON'T GET MAD .....GET EVEN.

I would like to see this takeover bid fall on it's backside if only to see Darth squirm in the ineviteable post take over interviews.

The BS from Darth,Princess Leia and other associated fiends would be priceless.

The spin doctors have obviously tried to portray Darth a warm wonderful charitable guy.The journo doing the interview must have had to overdose on stemitil.

The smh article is truly refreshing to read. Finally some acknowledgement and questioning about the total lack of transperancy in the senior Qantas ranks. All the holes are ligning up and if the Reason Model is correct, an 'event' is about to occur. Don't you just love our Australian culture, sometimes tall poppy syndrome actually does some good.

Power and Influence of the media
 

The remarkable differences in tone and content between the recent AFR and SMH articles is stunning!... I guess it clearly illustrates those factions aligned with Senior QF management and those that are not... Great to read the SMH article - which concentrates on the facts. Well done to the the SMH journalists...

The sly hidden agendas and poor ethical practices are too many to count...

It only goes to prove how easily led some sections of the media are. Don't believe what you read or see from them, if you're interested in a topic, find out for yourself!