Comments on: Battle of the Qantas chiefs: tourism is just a sideshow

By: Bill Williams

Bill Williams — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:49:18 +0000

Anybody who challenges the narcissistic prince’s right to occupy centre stage must die….no matter how small minded it might seem….there just can’t be any other lead singers in the band. Remember what Kevin Rudd did to Peter Garrett? Dixon represents a much more real threat to Joyce than Garrett ever did to Rudd.

Mind you, Dixon’s position on Joyce is a bit rich….after all he, more than anybody else, is responsible for Joyce being CEO.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:38:18 +0000

Qantas provides the $44 million over 3 years to Tourism Australia, which works out to be around $14.67 million a year. It’s not added on to the Revenues (as it is classified as a joint venture), but its a bit of loss as total revenues provided to TA equal $154 million a year (in 2011/2012) (so it’s the equivalent of a loss of 8.7% of Extended Revenue) The Federal Government will be left holding the bill.
I would say that Dixon will have to resign at some stage in the next few week. He must know his situation is not good and while Ferguson is publicly supporting Dixon, I’m sure he had some quiet words that equate to “FIX IT!”

By: Boston the Dog

Boston the Dog — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:03:21 +0000

The so-called 9 billion dollars potential loss to the Australian tourist industry is NOT Alan Joyce’s problem. His job is to make sure Qantas makes money. NOT look after another industry.

I find it quite incredible that a private company “donates” $40,000,000 to a government body. I would have thought that Tourism Australia is a government(s) responsibility.

I, unfortunately, work for Alan Joyce and I must say that this is the first outwardly positive thing he has done for the airline. Dixon has done enough damage, both in the past and in recent history. Call him out.