Qantas: flying in the face of commonsense or a wily strategy? (The Age-Australia)
November 8, 2011
By Prof. Greg Bamber
It is possible that it has been baiting the water with blood to attract the sharks.
AT THE recent Qantas annual meeting, shareholders endorsed the current management strategies and huge pay increases for chief executive Alan Joyce. This is odd as Qantas’s share price has fallen under his watch. Further, Qantas is in conflict with several of its key stakeholders: the government, passengers and important parts of its workforce.
The grounding of the Qantas network precipitated travel disruption and much discussion about the causes of the chaos. Now the chaos is past, what will be the outcomes of the current industrial relations process? In answering this question, we should keep in mind other questions about Qantas.