Haha, gotta love Qantas huh? With recent incidents, much of which has been exaggerated by the media, Qantas has been given a cold shoulder by many passengers and by the general public. Really, the only two major incidents of concern should be QFs 30 and 72, as they were mid-air events that do not happen, and could easily have resulted in their first ever loss of a jet liner. Although it’s kinda good to know that they haven’t yet, and when they do, it should be interesting as to whether their loss would be due to skimpy maintenance or just pilot error.
Anyway, with Qantas’s reputation going downhill, Geoff Dixon stepped down from being CEO of the airline on the 28th of November, with a 12.2 million dollar pay packet. Dixon had been CEO of Qantas since March 2001, and created JetStar as a low-cost carrier to rival Virgin Blue. The current CEO of JetStar, Alan Joyce, has been appointed the new position. Joyce worked for the now defunct Ansett Australia and the Irish air carrier Aer Lingus (which only uses Airbus aircraft. w00t! hehe) and so he has had quite a lot of experience in the airline industry. Should be rather interesting as to how he decides to run Qantas, most notably at how he will order the maintenance and if the airline will remain afloat…
Meanwhile, I talked to Thomas briefly yesterday about his trip to Hong Kong. He says that Hong Kong’s Chap Lap Kok Airport was very good, and better than Bangkok’s. Most importantly, and I could not have forgotten, I asked what he thought about Qantas. Haha, I was like “ROFL” when he replied “crap”. I thought that they may actualy half-enjoy Qantas’s service and all that, although from what he told me, it did seem rather crap and unproffesional. He said that they had screwed up the in-flight entertainment, and that they somehow ran out of food. As for the daitals, I haven’t asked yet, although I wonder what Hugh and Daniel’s thoughts were of Qantas. Although thankfully, their flights were actually on-time/not that late.
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