Interview with DJ's JB in today's OZ

[cove]

Today's interview of Virgin Blue CEO JB is an interesting read in The Australian today.
A330 planes are coming.
The product changes may be better than a new paint job on the outside.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Re: DJ Dream Pack - new to domestic premium

The interview with John Borghetti certainly makes interesting reading.
It's available here:-
Virgin Blue chief stays the course in dogfight | The Australian

 

[anat0l]

Re: DJ Dream Pack - new to domestic premium

The interview with John Borghetti certainly makes interesting reading.
It's available here:-
Virgin Blue chief stays the course in dogfight | The Australian

Although this is straying off topic now (mods might create a new thread), this is a heartening interview from JB. Certainly makes me more intent on finding out what they have in store, and if JB is as impatient as he sounds, we won't be waiting for long at all for it to come!

Some of the obvious truths though:

• No legacy issues unlike QF, so a lot more mobility to make bolder changes.
• Corporate share can only go up. Certainly, even if it is just 1%, but I think JB will get his wish of at least double digits and then some. It would take some sort of disaster really for Virgin Blue's corporate share to dive, and that's not likely at all to happen.

 

[dk4]

Well, I for one have to eat my words, having posted in the past that I thought DJ was getting a bum deal with a QF has-been.

...Borghetti says he will be unveiling in the first half of next year "a very different airline" that will not try to emulate Qantas.
"In fact, quite the opposite," he says. " If there is one thing we don't want to be it's Qantas.

In fact the combination of - a miner with no airline experience at the Chair and a CEO number cruncher with a low cost personality, doesn't seem as good as I first thought for QAN.

Plus - that JB looks like he has a lot of life left in him yet. (Let alone the cream that he is milking from the top of Qantas - both in terms of staff and potentially customers.)

 

[ozbeachbabe]

In fact the combination of - a miner with no airline experience at the Chair and a CEO number cruncher with a low cost personality, doesn't seem as good as I first thought for QAN.

QF were not after a Chairman with airline experience. Leigh Clifford's mining background at Rio Tinto & his dislike of unions got him the gig.

Meanwhile back at the ranch Roger Lindeman another senior former QF employee joins the ranks of DJ.

http://www.eglobaltravelnews.com.au...ior-exec-to-leave-qantas-for-virgin-blue.html

 

[pauly7]

QF were not after a Chairman with airline experience. Leigh Clifford's mining background at Rio Tinto & his dislike of unions got him the gig.

http://www.eglobaltravelnews.com.au...ior-exec-to-leave-qantas-for-virgin-blue.html

His ability to deal with rogue, demanding, misleading and often acting illegally unions got him the gig.