In a post on LinkedIn, Ms Hrdlicka said that husband Jason Gaudin had died after a “long, difficult and brave battle”, leaving behind her and their two sons, 19-year-old Alec and 16-year-old Josh.
Hudson, currently CFO of Qantas, will receive a base annual salary of $1.6 million when she takes over from Joyce in November, which is $600,000 less than Joyce’s current base salary of $2.2 million. She will be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, which would bring her total pay up to $5.8 million – still well shy of Joyce’s total $8.4 million remuneration.
The Sunshine Coast to Tamworth route is the 13th and final to launch from the Sunshine Coast as part of Bonza’s initial network plans. The airline is set to fly twice weekly between the two cities, bringing its total flights from the Sunshine Coast base to 39 per week.
The ruling means the two airlines can no longer jointly tender for mining companies’ contracts and must quickly unwind their current deal.
In a press conference welcoming his successor, Qantas CFO Vanessa Hudson, Joyce said that COVID-19 had left Qantas 11 weeks from complete collapse in 2020 and that, now the crisis has passed and the Flying Kangaroo has recovered, now is the “logical time” for him to go.
The twice-weekly five-hour flights on Boeing 737 aircraft will operate between Tullamarine and Learmonth Airports from now until October, with a total of more than 18,000 seats to be made available over the tourist season.