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Qantas books jet into Singapore for work
March 22, 2006 - 6:14AM
Qantas has booked in at least one of its 747s for an overhaul in Singapore despite promising only a fortnight ago to keep the heavy maintenance of its jets in Australia.
The airline's chief executive Geoff Dixon announced on March 10 Qantas would not send engineering work to Asia for at least two years. However, it said it would move its Sydney operation to Melbourne.
... I was under the impression that Qantas is a company with legal obligations to serve the interests of shareholders and not keep howard the duck happy
Dave
Legally and Literally that is true. However, the perception of Joe Public would appear to be different.
The govt. can promote themselves: "Hey, vote for us some more because we kept jobs within Oz by keeping those nasty SQ people out of OZ-US".
When Qantas suddenly assign *some* of that work overseas, the above promotion loses some of its puff.
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Originally Posted by serfty
Legally and Literally that is true. However, the perception of Joe Public would appear to be different.
The govt. can promote themselves: "Hey, vote for us some more because we kept jobs within Oz by keeping those nasty SQ people out of OZ-US".
When Qantas suddenly assign *some* of that work overseas, the above promotion loses some of its puff.
So in my book its the government trying to win votes that looks silly, not Qantas.
And has anyone in the Australian Government or Qantas actually make a link between the SQ trans-Pacific issue and the location of QF maintenance work? That seems to be an assumption made by many people but I am yet to see any hard evidence that it is anything more than timing coincidence.
The minister and the prime minister were both singing from the same songsheet on this, denying that the issues were linked. Which for me pretty much indicated the opposite. :roll:
A number of news services quoted Truss, e.g:
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Originally Posted by Dow Jones Newswires
Transport Minister Warren Truss said then there was no "understanding" Qantas would retain its heavy maintenance capability in Australia in exchange for the decision to keep SIA off the trans-Pacific route. But said he had made it clear to Qantas it was "strongly in the national interest" for the Sydney-based airline to retain its local skill base. More...
Perhaps Truss only had to say to Dixon, "We're thinking about keeping SQ out of the trans-pacific route, and would appreciate any support you can give us on possible future employment issues that may arise". Dixon: Yes, I understand.
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The minister and the prime minister were both singing from the same songsheet on this, denying that the issues were linked. Which for me pretty much indicated the opposite. :roll:
The cynic and the realist in me says the probability of some background "understanding" between the parties high. But I don't think we should be stating it as fact unless there is strong evidence to support the claim. It would make for an interesting episode of Yes Minister. I can just see how Sir Humphrey would present the "facts" to his minister.
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