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Qantas’s ‘Australian-ness’ and future fleet orders could be jeopardised by the potential takeover bid. (Rob Finlayson)
Qantas in private hands?
The art of prophecy is very difficult – especially with respect to the future. – Mark Twain As this is read it is highly likely that the die will be cast and Qantas may be on a new flightpath into the unknown and none of us will be any wiser than Mark Twain of making sense of that unknown.
Unknown because the world’s oldest continually operating airline could be in the hands not of the mums and dads of Australia, under the umbrella of the Australian Stock Exchange, but in the private hands of financial institutions and equity funds.
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