Copied this from an aviation site (pprune.org) where there are many and varied opinions.
This commentary is a summary of the reality of the overall plan that the industry is aware of and that VBA are basing their remodeling on.
The blaming of unions and everyone else within firing range is what the media love and is all that the public have to go on.
"No lads its not stupidity nor incompetence, it is simply following the Dixon plan of turning QF into JQ.
A new national carrier, born of the old one, run at half the price, employing Asian workers who have to be prepared to work for peanuts, all engineering done OS in Bucketstan, by poorly trained, to our standards, engineers.
The tech crew will stay Australian (the question is are they prepared to fly half serviced buckets of bolts) but of course there are always foreign pilots ready to be employed. Profits will rise, the shareholders will be happy, the CEO will get another bonus, until the inevitable, the first aircraft shaped smoking hole in the ground. Of course it will be the fault of the pilots who are probably deceased, or the hapless engineer who signed it out, but it will never be the fault of the management.
From the day the birth of JQ it was always the plan, and it is slowly coming to fruition, the wringing of the hands, the wiping of the brow by Joyce is worthy of a Oscar, the unions know it, the staff know it, but the public don't. Qantas will be no more than a brand name loved by the nation but will have as much relevance as Ansett and TAA do today.
Welcome to the bone yard QF to lie with your ex patriots, irrelevant, forgotten, destroyed by a bunch of carpetbaggers, men without soul, the greed of the shareholder, a fine airline with a proud record lies in the dust for no other reason than greed."