MERGED: Qantas grounded effective immediately.
 

Sad day indeed.

Qantas grounded
 

WTF! What a sad day. Joyce is a joke. Stand up to him.

Unbelievable.
ABC news24 has coverage of questions c

I hope not true.

Entire fleet grounded immediately. Excluding Jstar, QLink, Jetconnect.

When do the dogs and balaclavas come out? No wonder Reith stuck his nose in the other day.

What a sad day.

OMFKG!

Unbelievable....

Words cannot express. What a joke!

Now the government will have to get involved. The unions will go back to work at some stage and will destroy Joyce from the inside. You can bet he will get a 3 year contract renewal and another big bonus. What a tool!!!

All because they booed him at the AGM, he is insane. Good one Adolf.

I just got an SMS about this wtf

Just got SMS, lockout from 8pm (AEDT) 31 Oct.

2 words,

IN-SANE !!! :eek:

Cannonball,

You have cut and pasted your post on at least 3 threads so far. Thanks for your wisdom. Now move along...please!

Whos decision was this? Joyce alone, or did he take advice from elsewhere?
Government will now step in - whose side will they be on?

This is going to cost the country billions of dollars - first casualty the Mebourne cup carnival........

Long term damage to the brand will surely cost hundreds of millions - is it worth it?

Very poor form Joyce, grow some integrity!!

F%@k this, I'm going fishing......

But I thought the engineers union has removed all bans etc. How can they be locked out?

This guy is insane and evil

(burn baby burn is playing on radio)

Virgin must be laughing all the way to the bank. :D
BSB

Well this will certainly bring it to a head. What about the customers stranded overseas? What about staff straneded overseas?

I think Qantas has lost the plot. They have not been competitive for some time and this may mean the death. The union issue has not helped.