Rob Fyfe resigns from Air NZ
 

CEO Rob Fyfe to quit Air NZ - Business - NZ Herald News

So who is going to take over?

Helen Clark :eek::{;)

NZ's loss / QFs gain...

Please take the Qantas board and the little Irishman. Air NZ has had years of innovation - its time to stop it. Alan has got years of experience running a NZ airline - Jetconnect. Air NZ can only benefit from this!

:}:}:}:}:}

After a world wide search for the best airline CEO Air NewZealand annouced the appointment of Allan Joyce. Could we at Qantas be so lucky. I doudt it. Do ANZ deserve him? No, no airline does.

They already know who the successor is.
Goodbye little Robbie...

Would be interesting if he heads to coward street :cool:

Leaving at the end of the year would mean that he wouldn't be able to take up his role in Coward Street until 6 months later, you'd assume.

So you might be stuck with AJ for another 18 months!

The New Zealand Herald quoted a statement from Fyfe saying that his decision was made partly to create the space for the airline’s talented and capable executives to realize their full potential.

That's a message, ladies.
You're stuck with AJ.
It means it'll highly likely be an internal appointment.
Have a look at the NZ website exec page and see if you can work out who ol Steak thinks it'll be...;)

Or he takes the helm at VA and JB gets his beloved QF back, if only........

Rob vs Mini Me - And the winner is??
 

Fyfe won't pop up at QF. He is too smart. Unlike the Irish Nimrod, Fyfe has chosen to bail while he is at the crest of his ride. He can see clearly through the hazy crystal ball at the financial maelstrom about to cripple the globe. Smart boy that one.
Why take on either QF or VA now, in an environment racked with a multitude of financial, political and fiscal global implosions? Nope, bail out with reputation intact. He will 'reappear' somewhere unrelated to running an airline, pretty much gaurenteed. And good on him, he has earned himself some points in the process. Unlike da little fella from QF who has earned himself the reputation for destroying a national icon, trashing a business and expediently loading up his bank account while his shareholders reap a giant pineapple in the ass!

Oh the pain, the humiliation, the despair, the angst and the embarresemt - You bastards got Fyfe while we got a 5 foot bag of steaming pony pooh!!!

You are so right...look for Mr Fyfe next as the head of a NZ State Owned Enterprise, or a large financial institution.
There is no money to be made in airlines....everyone knows that... that only way to make a small fortune out of aviation is to start with a large fortune.
Mr Fyfe knows he has made the best out of a bad situation...basically come out of a toilet smelling of flowers. Good for him. Go on to bigger and better things.
As for the employees of Air NZ, watch another CEO bail with a big tick on his CV, wait and see who the next short term opportunist is.
Can someone show me a single person in airline management who has spent anywhere near as much time with a company as the most senior pilot?
Yeah, thought not. More fool us!

Norm Thompson must come close?

No - it won't be good old Normy.
And speaking as a Kiwi who used to work near the top of NZ - good bloody luck to whoever gets little Robbie next.
Ignore the PR and the grandstanding, boys.:yuk:
Look at the numbers.
The point is not to come out of the toilet smelling of flowers.
It's actually to install another urinal or two, and make the whole bog turn a decent profit!
He wouldn't stand a sh*t show running an airline like QF.

From the SMH:

"Mr Fyfe, who replaced former Commonwealth Bank boss Ralph Norris as Air New Zealand chief executive in 2005, has been heralded in some quarters as a possible future chief executive of Qantas."

Read more: Air NZ looks for new chief

Which quarters would that be? PPrune?

Well who knows? Maybe the institutions have finally pinged that the gnome hasn't a clue and is past his use by date.

Joyce to NZ?
 

Don't think so, the last time a senior QF exec was roped in to run AirNZ, it didn't turn out to be their most successful period...

On the suggestion Fyfe could head QF - Qantas's problems are profound and deep.
They require much more of a CEO than a talent for generating publicity and creating a veneer of staff engagement.
He couldn't handle your unions for a start - or your politicians.
Your fleet alone is nearly three times the size of NZ's, your staff numbers over three times higher, your network is much more extensive, your market cap is three and a half times that of NZ.
I could go on - basically QF is a muuuch bigger and more complex gig than NZ - the two airlines are totally different animals.

"Your fleet alone is nearly three times the size of NZ's, your staff numbers over three times higher, your network is much more extensive............."

Orrrr- don't know, it's been tried before.......... from that side of the Tasman- with the benefit of hindsight one learns, might be worth a shot..........:\:}:E

Rgds all
S28- BE

John Borghetti.