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I suppose so. We will see if other airlines have the same issues.
A lot of planes sat around for a lot of time during covid, things that are kept warm and operating have predictable issues, things that sit around in the open getting cold, damp, wet, warm get a whole different set of problems, most of which are unexpected.
That's if the incident rates high enough as news worthy, above Scott Morrisons dog passing wind, or Albo's cat chucking up a fur ball.I suppose so. We will see if other airlines have the same issues.
Oh so very happy to see the back of the garden gnome. So long, good bye and tut tah
I think they did not do enough and the wokes will be unhappy.Oh so very happy to see the back of the garden gnome. So long, good bye and tut tah
Joe Aston has a good swipe in the AFR. Might even cut n paste it.been reported that the head of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller, has criticised Qantas’ decision to remove The Australian Financial Review from its lounges and Wi-Fi access after critical articles, describing it as a “form of corporate cancel culture”.
As much as possible, I try to boycott Qantas..but hate virgin woke as well..so not easy within AustraliaGood evening,
It has been reported that the head of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller, has criticised Qantas’ decision to remove The Australian Financial Review from its lounges and Wi-Fi access after critical articles, describing it as a “form of corporate cancel culture”.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Kind regards
rcw1
REX . Bonza.As much as possible, I try to boycott Qantas..but hate virgin woke as well..so not easy within Australia
The decision by Qantas in recent days to banish The Australian Financial Review from its lounges and inflight Wi-Fi network is only what we’ve come to expect from our national carrier remade in the image of Alan Joyce.It is, of course, the second such wobbly he’s chucked in 10 years. In 2014, Joyce yanked all Qantas advertising from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and removed all physical copies of those newspapers from Qantas terminals, livid at columnist Adele Ferguson raising the prospect of his sacking over the company’s (then) record $2.8 billion annual loss.It’s an incredibly petty act that actually bears out what we’ve been saying all along about the corrosion of Joyce’s leadership.
This is a decision the public can see, but what other decisions are made beyond our line of sight? Who else has slighted Joyce and suffered the consequences?
The Financial Review is a tiny vendor to Qantas. What becomes of the major catering or engineering supplier who displeases the great man? What is it like for employees who make a mistake, or who fail to genuflect deeply enough?
This isn’t about a few missing newspapers, but the pattern they represent. Nobody derives profound egoic injury from a single cut. This is a lifelong practice, directing inordinate energies to persecuting those who won’t deify you.
Remember, the most important thing to Joyce isn’t money. He’s made $130 million, so he doesn’t need any more of that. The most important thing in the world to Joyce now is what other people think of him.
In his mind, clearly, he has constructed a heroic image of himself as the saviour of Qantas. He truly believes this. Indeed, he may be incapable of believing anything else.
Saviour narrative
This is why Joyce makes statements that come across as comically self-unaware. He cannot express gratitude for the Australian government handing Qantas $2.7 billion during the pandemic. He even goes as far as claiming Qantas “ended up getting very little government support”. He is unable to acknowledge that taxpayers helped rescue Qantas because it is incompatible with his conviction that he alone rescued Qantas.
This is why he says: “I would’ve retired a few years ago, [but] I agreed to stay … to help the company get through a terrible crisis,” when in May 2019, well before COVID, the Qantas board had publicly confirmed a three-year extension of his tenure. Joyce had erased this from his mind, again, because it conflicts with his saviour narrative.
This is also why he internalises the company’s successes and externalises all of its failures. On being 11 weeks from bankruptcy but getting Qantas through COVID, and on its record profitability, he leans heavily into his own agency. On lost bags, schedule chaos and woeful customer service, those are just ailments of the entire global airline industry.
All of this delusion is enabled by Joyce’s chairman, Richard Goyder, from whom Joyce garners sympathy by playing the vulnerable teenager. Goyder is fully signed up to all of Joyce’s narratives. The duo exhibit all the dynamics of an enmeshed family. It is frankly creepy.
Joyce is particularly sensitive about any threats to his hero story because he is at a delicate juncture in his life. His borrowed power is evaporating, the countdown is on, and he is transitioning to Mr Altruism, Mr Community. Joyce is seeking moral elevation right as his balloon is losing air.
The sad fact is that Alan Joyce is emotionally ill-equipped to cope with his dead-set legend complex falling apart upon close public inspection. It is absolutely devastating to him – after 15 years of almost uninterrupted adulation – to be seen for what he really is: just another overpaid, insecure, unexceptional businessman who believes his own bull****; just another CEO who did to his company what was best for himself.
Joyce has sustained the deepest wound to his internal dialogue, and his rage is like a wildfire. It goes to any opportunity, it knows no proportion, it descends to every pettiness. He probably realised how silly purging the Financial Review would make him look, but his ego defence overrides any calculation of consequences.
Luckily, Qantas isn’t sophisticated enough to lose my bags on purpose and to ban me from flights they’d need a CRM system that isn’t held together by rubber bands and twine. Instead, Joyce will just have to slip salt in my sugar bowl.
Ah the garden gnome I despise him. Belongs at the bottom of a run down, overgrown swamp where he can murmer sweet nothings to himself.
I do hope BONZA is able to survive.REX . Bonza.
Trouble is Mick the el cheapos don't seem to surviveI do hope BONZA is able to survive.
So far from what I hear in the industry, they are working well, providing exceptionally cheap fares, and providing a service the big players lack.
Was talking to someone who went to visit children in Byron Bay.
For $130 each way she drove from Tocumwal to Albury Airport, parked and had to walk less than 150 meters to the terminal, was very little queuing, plane on time, no crowds at Ballina destination, then a bus to Byron.
Not my ideal as I hate busses, but it is cheap.
Mick
No, they don't ... and usually because the gnome suddenly decides Albury to Ballina is unmet demand and will mesh quite nicely, and runs the aspirant out of town. Then shuts it down.Trouble is Mick the el cheapos don't seem to survive
The other issue I have that causes my remaining teeth to grind is the cancellation of flights by the majors.No, they don't ... and usually because the gnome suddenly decides Albury to Ballina is unmet demand and will mesh quite nicely, and runs the aspirant out of town. Then shuts it down.
Serious changes need to be made in this regard.The other i
The other issue I have that causes my remaining teeth to grind is the cancellation of flights by the majors.
They deliberately schedule flights knowing they will be cancelled because of either crew shortages, lack of demand, or just because they can.
What this effectively does is tie up up the landing/takeoff slots so that the newbies or internationals cannot use them , this eliminating from the airport routes.
The airport managers don't care, they get paid for the slots anyway, so they will not kick up a stink.
Mick
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