For eight years, former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon was the highest paid airline executive in the world, despite a pretty mediocre performance in the job. The irony hasn’t been lost on the company’s embattled workforce.
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How Geoff Dixon earned $11 million in 9 months
As profits took a tumble, former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon earned almost $11 million for nine months’ work in the last financial year, four of them as a consultant. Current CEO Alan Joyce must be looking on wistfully.
Joyce: Jetstar can’t ease the squeeze
Qantas head Alan Joyce admits Jetstar is limited in its capacity to ease profit and capacity pressure on the parents company.
Job slasher Qantas could be $338 million in the red
On the figures released this morning Qantas could be loosing up to $338 million in this last half of its financial year ending 30 June.
Business for Qantas can never be the same again
The old pyramid shaped revenue model where most of the money was made from the smallest cadre of high fare paying frequent flyers was fatally wounded by the rise of low cost carriers.
Qantas and ATSB fly united
If Qantas fails to correct its attitude to safety and standards, customers could be at risk, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tips and rumours
The firestorm surrounding Beyond Blue chair Jeff Kennett has taken a new twist: a check of all the funding grants from Beyond Blue for the last five years has only thrown up one, yes one, grant for g-y and l-sbian mental health, and that was only for $50k for HIV related depression. Other anti-depression groups, such as […]
What sort of Qantas will Jetstar-Joyce deliver?
His Jetstar project turned out to be a boon for Virgin. Will Alan Joyce bring home the bacon for Qantas, wonders Ben Sandilands?
Tips and rumours
I was on a scheduled flight from Paris Orly airport to Marrakesh on Royal Air Maroc last week and the last passenger to board was French President Nicolas Sarkozy. After a quick wave and smile to the peasants in cattle class, el Presidente and his entourage of three clip-board wielding flunkies made themselves comfortable in the […]
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Should an Irishman run Australia’s most iconic brand?
Alan Joyce’s ascension to the top job at Qantas means that Australia’s most iconic brand is now being managed for an expat. An Irish airline can’t buy Qantas but an Irishman can run it, writes
Geoff Dixon replaced by younger Qantas model
Fancy turfing CEO Geoff Dixon straight after the worst Qantas safety incident in history and not even giving him some quotes in today’s CEO succession press release, writes Stephen Mayne.
Dixon ejects as Qantas jumps for Joyce
The appointment of Alan Joyce, the CEO of Jetstar, as the new Qantas CEO, comes as a shock, writes Ben Sandilands.
