Another AFR article on Cherrie CEO David May. Make of it what you will.
In a 2024 podcast with his wife, May claimed he was fired by Jetstar after a Powderfinger concert in Brisbane and heavy drinking at an offsite in Bali. Yesterday he backtracked and said he had not been fired but resigned to join iSelect, and that the podcast, which was promoting his wife's book, "was a mix of fact and fiction designed to pique the interest of her readership" and it was almost all fictionalised.
In last week's interview with the AFR, he said he had "probably about seven" different roles and was the airline's chief commercial officer from April 2009 to April 2011, but Medibank CEO David Koczkar was CCO at Jetstar from 2008 to 2014. May then clarified in an email that he had been CCO for three periods totalling 18 months on an interim basis.
He was also declared personally bankrupt in 2016, but this has since been discharged.
Cherrie also continues to emphasise it is a separate legal entity to Vietjet. May even makes the claim it is "Australia's most Australian airline."
Source (paywalled):
Vietjet’s man in Australia said he was ‘fired’ from Jetstar
