Says the QANTAS stooge.

:rolleyes:

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Three cheers for the new CEO

Dunkerly was largely quite liked by the pilot group. The board is the group that voted for/against pilot contracts, not the ceo.

Contract issues has been largely a USA wide issue for decades certainly not unique to HA.

The placards literally have his name on them

I was at LAX few months ago and Alaska Pilots were picketing on the sidewalk.

If if you have worked over there you would be well aware of industry contract problems. All bar Southwest !

Nope.

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Southwest Pilots.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/n...-field-as.html

Southwest Mechanics.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/...t-new-contract

Virgin has missed a golden opportunity by not appointing John Thomas, so now we’re going to get a FIFO CEO!
I’ll give him 18 months before he “resigns to spend more time with the family” blah blah blah.
It’s become a bloody circus under JB and no amount of banging fists on desks and shouting is going to compensate for the under resourced mess we see here today.
It’s a bloody shame.......

Notwithstanding the personal loyalties that come with the fiefdom that the current CEO has built up around him, the blame for the mess needs to be laid directly at the feet of the chairperson.

There are differing reports about Thomas, but I still think he was the best bet the airline had. The US airline executive experiment has failed dismally in the past, particularly with the ex United band of incompentants, with the US airline environment being significantly different to the Australian one, and the US industrial and pilot environment being significantly different.

The ex Hawaiian Airlines guy is British but has spent a lot of time in the US, but tellingly it would seem has spent sod all in Australia.

How hard is it to find a ceo that is willing to treat people properly - find one of those and there is a half decent chance that the airline will succeed.

Icarus, while I don’t agree with a number of Brett’s philosophies I believed he genuinely cared about the staff, and recognised that the staff, and more importantly their families, were the key to success. And for the most part the business made a profit.

Yes there were things that were not good, there were things that were poorly done, but at the end of the day it was a much better business and much better company to work for than now.

THAT all said, it is still one of the best jobs in aviation in Australia - and while that sounds like a contradiction, there are a heap of things this joint does well.

Finding the special sauce that puts all the good bits of then and now together into one package is the key. We aren’t there yet, and I am hopeful the new boss, whomever that may be, might go some way towards conjuring that magic.

I live in hope.

I’d settle for a Gordon Bethune!

There are but they will never get a gurnsey in this country, too progressive for the corporate culture.

so who’s actually running the joint at the moment?

Excellent question!

Nobody as far as I can tell.......

Stevedore boss Paul Scurrah touted as Virgin CEO candidate.

WTF!!!
Do they just like to add a different name each week!
FFS.

https://aus.remonews.com/stevedore-b...ceo-candidate/

Maybe someone was offered the gig but didn’t want it. My money is on Merren.