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‘He’s indubitably the most reviled, divisive and hated CEO in the company’s historical past,’ a Qantas pilot informed Crikey of Alan Joyce’s exit.
The king is ineffective. Long dwell the queen. The 15-year reign of Alan Joyce as chief government of Qantas has come to an abrupt end together with his six-month farewell in the slit value of immediate by the failure of the very thing he leaned on during his regency: public kin and spin.
The contemporary announcement of a probe by the competition regulator into Qantas selling tickets to 8000 “ghost” flights it allegedly knew would be cancelled, off the inspire of a growing stench of safety spherical Qantas by the Albanese government, was an unmitigated — and unspinnable — PR catastrophe.
This was topped by the whine of $10.8 million in shares earned largely whereas taxpayers had been propping up a loss-making company — and then underpinning its return to profit. Even Joyce’s venerable buddy Albanese turned on him at the end.
News Read extra what Qantas pilots and engineers wish to reveal of Alan Joyce’s exit.
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Michael Sainsbury
South-East Asia Correspondent @sainsburychina
Michael Sainsbury is a journalist essentially based in Asia with extra than 20 years’ ride writing about business, business politics and human rights all over Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
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