The last 2 boards have done everything they could to wreck this company. Same as what Murdoch and Abeles did to Ansett. Murdoch's last trick was to get Eddington to tell him to sell off the planes and then lease them back, realizing a one year profit. And when Eddington's report came back with what Rupert wanted to hear, thats what Rupert did. Then he sold the carcass to Air New Zealand.

The Irish guy now at Qantas loves to give himself outrageous pay increases. But over the past years he hived off Qantas all he could that actually made a profit for the conmpany. If his job was to kill Qantas by a thousand cuts then what he has done so far makes sense.

BTW, the Sydney-Melbourne route is what the sharks are after. One of the busiest routes in the world.



Qantas should be seen as a strategic asset for Australia. It is already. Next time we have scores of Australians stranded in some disaster/war zone maybe we can go cap in hand to Indonesia to get them out.

When the resources boom goes bust, this place will be a ghost town.