At that time, the airline was making headlines for all the wrong reasons, including plans to sack staff over a three-year period as it dealt with a triple-whammy from high fuel prices, a domestic fight with Virgin Australia Holdings and an influx of capacity from international rivals. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce: "Without the impact of transformation, we would not be announcing a profit today.
To the delight of investors, the share price has more than doubled to trade at the highest levels since and there are smiles all around at the airline's Mascot headquarters near Sydney Airport.
And given the airline's history of poor relations with much of its unionised workforce, few imagined it would be able to push through its proposal for an month pay freeze in every enterprise bargaining agreement that came up for negotiation. Several unions, including the usually militant Transport Workers Union and Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association have signed new agreements including the month pay freeze.
That has given the airline the traction it needs to get remaining unions on board and has allowed it to fight the normal wage creep of about 3 per cent a year. The management team has also taken some of the pain, with Joyce reporting a 40 per cent fall in his take-home pay last year. Qantas also moved quickly on the job cuts, with of the planned redundancies to be completed by June, in the process saving it hundreds of millions of dollars annually on wages.
But Qantas itself is an airline with little future — as an international full service airline at the end of the line in a world where it is helpless to compete with the market and pricing power of efficient Middle East and Asian intermediate airlines able to pick the eyes out of its European and Asian services.
Thanks to its dual brand however, Qantas Group has a few special features up its sleeve, which other airlines would do well to examine. Fortuitously having avoided privatisation in the debt-fuelled days of — a private equity bid which would have split up and capitalised on the various segments of the airline as well as loading the Group with debt at probably the worst time in history — it is instead now an integrated, segmented group with enormous internal synergies.
It does admittedly have a unique advantage, in jointly owning two thirds of the Australian domestic market. That is, by passenger numbers. It is an indication of the pain which this downturn is causing even though Australia is less affected than almost any country that even with this advantage, the mainline carrier is still unprofitable. Just the fact that Qantas was able — against contemporary industry wisdom — to establish a highly successful and complementary low cost subsidiary, Jetstar , has been its prime strategic move in this decade.
This enabled it first of all to reverse the threatening inroads being made by low cost domestic competition notably Virgin Blue from onwards, then later to invade Southeast Asia with an international joint venture subsidiary, Jetstar Asia , based in Singapore. A subsequent investment in Vietnam and a near-miss in Indonesia further entrenches the Asian future.
The original Jetstar airline was created to head off the threat of domestic competition, the latter to exploit future Asian expansion opportunities not available in its home market. It operates primarily tourist routes and now occupies Australian flag carrier status in Tokyo for example, after Qantas withdrew. Today is the day, folks! The national carrier has pulled out all the stops for its big day next week, including a nifty tech update to help passengers navigate travel restrictions.
Sara Blakely just gave her employees the work perk of a lifetime, so please excuse us while we hound the shapewear mogul on every social media platform asking for a job. Are you based in either Victoria or Tassie? And do you only book luxury jaunts for your clients? Well, this new appointment is worth taking note of. The organizational structure of Qantas is a mixed centralized and decentralized structure of organization. The typical U. Vice President salaries at U.
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