Credit where due - Qantas has been very good today. Pleasant cabin crew, good snacks, and the bloke at the service desk managed to move me to a seat with no one next to it. Good work.
Virgin is on strike and Qantas is granted a protection racket.
If only Australians would vote for an alternative, high speed rail would resolve the high costs of air travel.
“Introducing our first ever QantasLink @Airbus A220, fresh out of the paint shop 🎨
The aircraft is set to arrive in Australia before the end of the year and is the first of 29 A220s coming to the Qantas Group as part of its domestic fleet renewal program. The next-generation A220s have double the range of the Boeing 717s they’re gradually replacing, use less fuel, and are capable of flying direct between any two cities or towns in Australia.
The first A220 features a striking livery design and is the sixth aircraft to join Qantas’ Flying Art Series, which has showcased Aboriginal art since 1994’s Wunala Dreaming in partnership with @balarinjidesign.
Around 100 painters worked on the livery for two weeks, which features 20,000 dots and is based on artwork by senior Pitjantjatjara artist Maringka Baker. Telling the Dreaming story of two sisters who travel across remote Australia together, covering vast distances to find their way home, the aircraft is named after the artwork “Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa - The Two Sisters Creation Story”.”
I can't wait for the Gruen episode that analyses the unprecedented destruction of brand value at Qantas while Qantas Board Member Todd Sampson sits silently in the corner experiencing a similar destruction in the value of his own brand
CASA might not call it a conflict of interest, but they should, and I do.
“At the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic), Longo, and his two deputy chairs have access to the complimentary club, Asic confirmed.
“The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said six of its board members and senior executives – including the chief executive, Pip Spence – had been gifted membership to the Chairman’s Lounge and/or the Virgin Beyond lounges.”
@timrichards Hoping the Qantas experience shows that there's a limit to how far the pursuit of profit can be taken before the company starts to die from its own poison. I hope this applies to all companies.
One of the complaints levelled against the #Indigenous#VoiceToParliament is that the proposed #Voice will institutionalise unequal access to parliamentary attention, with some people having more avenues to exercise influence than others.
This has typically struck me as either somewhat clueless or (sometimes) in bad faith.
The fact is that there already exist a number of institutionally-enshrined "voices" creating wildly unequal access to parliament and executive government. The last week's focus from the federal Opposition in parliament has been highlighting how frequently the voice of #Qantas gets heeded, for instance. Whereas when it comes to, say, the #MineralsCouncilAustralia or Rupert #Murdoch, not only can they get a minister's ear more or less whenever they like, but their approval or disapproval often makes or breaks party leaders.
Hartcher is being generous with this line: "Privatisation became a dirty word in Australia around a decade ago." Australians have loathed privatisation from the start, IMO.
Qantas fallout: Alan Joyce did what’s expected of any private company’s CEO. That’s the problem