I actually like living in a country where it's citizens can complain without fear of prosecution other than a few people of a forum.

What I found most interesting was the music playing in the background.
Not the new Daniel John's funeral dirge, but rather the old kid's choir of " I still call Australia home."
What ,abandoning the new promo blitz already? That popular was it?

There is a funny side to this...
 

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both comments valid..

I see both sides of the argument, but there is a funny side to this as well..... when the video came across my desk I laughed out loud! "Now it's the Irish and Welsh welcoming home Australian Olympians!" I thought.... after watching it, "and they used the old campaign tune" and not the reason we fly thing.... not emotional enough?.... and after all that noise from Q PR about this new and exciting campaign.....

24 hours on a flight from LHR no matter what class you are flying, all you want to do is get through the formalities and get home....

Not sure how I would have felt if I was greeted by a Welsh lady and an Irish bloke tripping over themselves to shake my hand.....

I agree, QF is a major sponsor of Australia's Olympic team so AJ & JG were a walk up start to be there... all's fair in the PR opportunity stakes. no doubt about that...

but having said that, the mood in this country has changed significantly (to steal a word from OW) since the last time the Olympics were staged in Beijing. Let's just say, I was pretty horrified with all the whinging in the media about the low medal count. Couple this with the poor image both Gillard & Joyce have with the general population then I fully understand why people are a little peeeed off with the way todays welcoming ceremony was conducted...

Gillard and Joyce, are tarred with the same brush image wise... together they have overseen many job loses for Australian families, probably why they cop flak constantly and always on the negative side of things..

Those comfortable on the job front, who have a future, probably don't fully realise the emotions Gillard and Joyce set off amongst common garden variety Australians who have been effected by their decisions...

For me, Joyce & Gillard looked like a newlywed Royal couple greeting their adoring fans... it was a bit much in the way it was presented... and to an old tune..... supposedly now dated :rolleyes:.... too many mixed messages...

Oh spare me....... Gillard has seen many job losses? What jobs have been lost as a direct result of Gillard/Labor policy?

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Hi Fonz 121, late last year you said the above, in my previous post I was talking about the image or perception the public have about Gillard. Most of the country don't like the carbon tax... Joyce only talks about the need to change, other words cut jobs,,, Gillard uses the word "reform" always how you should live but did nothing about saving jobs other than the Victorian car industry, only because it would have destroyed support in her parties heartland in Victoria...

In the Qantas case, Joyce is seen as the man who stranded passengers under the watch of Gillard, don't start me on what her FWA mates did for aviation workers... Pair Gillard with Joyce and they carry the image of job slashers working together...... it is just the way it works...

Labor policy has nothing to do with perception people carry about Gillard... most don't understand what Labor nor the Liberals stand for anymore... they only see things when it affects them....

Job losses announced to-date:
Qantas 500
ANZ Bank 1000
Macquarie (globally) 1000
Westpac 560
Reckitt Benckiser 190
Toyota 350
Telstra/Sensis 200
Norsk Hydro 150
NAB 130
Holden 100
Rio Tinto 100
Suncorp 65
Jobs at risk of elimination:
Caltex refineries 700+
Alcoa 600
Royal Bank of Scotland (Australia) 400

Note, there has been a lot more since this story was published...... eg; Qantas a further 2800 jobs

Read more: Australian job loss figures

It takes about 12 months for job losses to filter through... anyway this is not what this thread is about....

It's about two unpopular people (as perceived by many in the aviation industry) with image problems marching up the front stairs of a recently arrived 744 from LHR putting on a poorly executed show. As this is a pilots network, it's pretty obvious that a few people on here could see through it...

Basically, poor casting from a PR point of view....:ok:

(Headline)
2016 Australian Olympic Team to fly Virgin B777 to Rio... will they bring back a haul of gold unlike 2012?

Met on arrival by a failing CEO and Prime Minister.

Had to be asked.

Ivor Biggun

Just goes to show the bubble elite athletes must live in.
If they even had the slightest idea about current affairs over the last several years, I doubt many would be shaking the hands of either a prime minister who used ass kissing, back stabbing and lies (but that is the "Australian" way it seems) to obtain her position, or a CEO who can't run a business.

Typhoon

Regardless of whether or not athletes live in a bubble, what you saw was simply a display of good manners and knowing how to behave.

Not long now and Joolya's "Reign of Error" will be at an end.

Yes Australia will be soooo much better off under the reign of the mad monk.

Spot on mate, exactly the point, they were a captive audience, (believe it or not people see through staged arrivals.)

Makes me wonder, what if the athletes were offered a choice of the front or rear exits? The greeting ceremony probably would have lasted about 20 seconds...:)