Hey Mr 1A et al....

Re" Selling it all off was a mistake".......

SO WAS THE WHOLE "PRIVATEISATION" SCAM!!!:yuk::yuk:

The airports for example....what has cost us - "The hard working families of Australia" - more???

Pay to land, pay to park, pay to park the car......
THAT ALONE has KILLED G/A....And raised the price of a ticket for ALL RPT travellers....

Don't get me started!!!!

Apols for the drift.......:mad::mad:

GRIFFO we dont sell off the hospitals or the ambulance service do we? Qantas Act should be amended and QF ear marked by Government as an essential service and buy it back

What, like around where it was a few months before current management came in?

God help Qantas and its staff if Alan Joyce has inked a deal with Malaysian.

This will not end well.

This morning at 7am there were 170 comments, 99% of which were critical of Qantas management. Now it appears they've wiped the lot. In fact, if you google "qantas the yub" ('the yub' was one of the union bashers who'd made several posts I'd remembered from this morning) the very first link that comes up contains a little snippet of the yub's wisdom and directs you to the SMH article. So I know I wasn't dreaming.

I guess Qantas PR must be back from Xmas holidays, cheque books at the ready :mad:

I certainly hope the PR machine comes out of hiding. I would like to see Wirthless make some media statements while dressed in baju melayu, those traditional clothes suit her slender frame and dominatrix style scowl. Maybe throw in some knee length crocodile skin boots and she can make me her bitch forever!!! Fair dinkum, I think I am in love!
Forget the incompetent management, tanked share price and the overall sinking ship, gve me Livvy in a full length rubber suit any day !

Cactus.................Cactus,............ wake up. You've been lured in. It will be a slow painful death. You'll receive the same treatment as all other employees. Used to fit a means. Imagine, suffocating in amongst the rubber suit, and spat out at the other end with nothing left.

Oh yes please, yes indeed, just the way I like it!

Anyone tipping its a full blown merger with MAS?

piston broke again Anyone tipping its a full blown merger with MAS?

If that is the case then as soon as MAS have secured the cash reserve QF have in the bank, then QF will be cast adrift and then go down the tube.
This will be the only reason a cash strapped carrier will merge with Qantas.

Well, Mr 1A,

In WA, the ambos ARE 'Private' - St Johns - owned by 'overseas interests' I am led to believe....

Don't even think of ever needing one unless you are in a fund....
Can be up to $800 per time - and that's according to a 'fund' advert.

And yes, I have preferred a 'private' hospital over the local State one from time to time - Lucky I'm in a 'Fund' eh??

And tell me, why should we 'limit' any buy back to QANTAS, an airline?
How about all of the AIRPORTS which are an ESSENTIAL part of any nation's and city's infrastructure.

Try living in this age without one!

As much as I am 'AUS' and a great fan of all things 'AUS', including our 'National Carrier', why we continue to 'sell the farm' / utilities that WE the taxpayers owned, and then expect it not to cost us, the taxpayers MORE, (Read - the hard working families of Australia etc etc..blah blah...) is beyond my poor comprehension....

I rest my case....:yuk:

Apols for the drift.......:}

Saw on the news Joyce has been warned by the chief economist not to cut jobs.. Doesn't mean he wont..

Qantas-Malaysian Airlines Alliance Has Wings: Macquarie - Deal Journal Australia - WSJ

water fountain talk in the macquarie offices ?

Like last time they announced jobs to go. They weren't being 'offshored', the 'jobs are gone' statement came out. A nice spin on the fact that jobs are being lost in Australia and gained in some other country.

So yeah, the jobs won't be offshored, the jobs are gone. Big difference ok ?

It's back up again to their credit, but buried deep in the travel section, comments now closed.
Grounding 'positive' for Qantas brand: Joyce

Now if Mr Joyce was concerned about the safety of the aircraft when he decided to ground the airline and 'lock out' its employees because they wouldn't be able to concentrate, surely the impending sacking of its staff would be of a greater concern and he must again ground the fleet again.

Shown an email sent around today to crew saying despite the rumours no big announcement planned and just the results announced and committed to being Australian employer etc etc

My money is on a delay of retiring current QF aircraft. The long term plan of having the 330's as domestic aircraft, relies on the new terminal at Sydney. There is no point re engineering the current Qantas terminal, they will be out in a handful of years. And as the current QF terminal can only handle 2 x 330's, they wouldnt want to send too many more 330's to the domestic operation just yet.

Thursday will be a non event.

A QF manager told me today that they are going to be pulling out of Frankfurt and Mumbai and shutting down 737 heavy maintainance in Melbourne. :ugh:

It is all about routes cut and shutting down one maintenance base,engineering wil be badly affected,