Marc Joel Atrero

A country divided on the Qantas crisis Alan Joyce’s highly charged decision to lock out members of three unions and ground the airline’s mainline fleet landed him before a Senate inquiry a week later and prompted very contrasting views. Paul Sheehan from The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the inquiry was an example of why

Understanding the issues behind the Qantas crisis The long running dispute between Qantas and three of its key unions representing long haul pilots, engineers, and baggage handlers and caterers is actually not about whether its staff are worthy of pay increases or improved conditions, it’s about the irreversible changing dynamics of the airline industry. Th

The genesis of an airline grounding The so-called slow bake of Qantas started in earnest in February with the airline dismissing a claim from the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) that Qantas flightdeck crew job security is imperiled as “completely unfounded”, while warning that the pilots’ wage requests are not viable. Qantas countered the

A special Qantas grounding NOTAM editorial Joyce likened the three unions’ industrial campaigns that eventually led to the airline’s extraordinary self imposed grounding as “death by a thousand cuts”. From the unions’ point of view, it was ‘industrial campaign 101’ stuff – ratcheting up the heat with a slowly increasing frequency of increasingly disruptive industrial

Last Super Hornets arrive, Growlers coming? The final four aircraft of an order of 24 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets for the RAAF arrived at their Amberley home base west of Brisbane on Friday October 22. The four jets completed the final leg of their trans-Pacific delivery flight, which originated at Naval Air Station Lemoore in

Cathay Pacific chief executive John Slosar When you consider the success of Cathay Pacific, it is easy to see why Qantas is looking to establish a new Asian based premium airline of its own. “We’re good at service, we’re good at understanding what people want, and giving them the products they want.” This content is