Mr Joyce says "Look over there!"

[RooFlyer]

If its not the bloody passengers stuffing things up by not being match fit or coming to the airports early and clogging them up with their bloody bags, its them "over there" who are making things difficult. From Perth: Today's Oz on-line:

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says he cannot bring aircraft back into service fast enough to meet demand for international travel despite horror stories from travellers in the northern hemisphere.

The airline expects to have five of its 10 remaining A380s back in the air by the end of the year and is awaiting delivery of another three Boeing 787-9s.

“British Airways was saying they had 18,000 bags stranded at Heathrow on Saturday,” Mr Joyce

“KLM and Lufthansa were telling us they think it’s going to get worse. KLM and Air France were flying empty aircraft out because they couldn’t let people go out of the country.”

In Canada, airports were using “metering” to try to stagger the number of people heading into terminals for processing.

The strategy meant aircraft were held on the tarmac or at the gate until passengers were allowed to disembark and in some instances the waits were longer than the preceding flight.

This is classic ... don't mention the Qantas sackings and consequent chaos in Qantas services!

Labour shortages were also a major issue for many airlines, with Mr Joyce pointing out American Airlines had grounded 100 aircraft because there were not enough pilots to operate them.

But the guy seems to honestly believe that his airline's poo doesn't smell (my bolding)

Mr Joyce also tackled the issue of business class airfares on transcontinental flights in Australia, with Qantas charging $2500 one-way whether the passenger was on a wide-body A330 or a narrow body 737.

He said the small number of seats available was driving up fares, but pointed out that the difference between Qantas and Virgin on the route, if booked 28-days in advance was about $400.

“The problem you have it’s not just the seat on the aircraft. It’s the product and everything that comes with it. We have 35 lounges, free Wi-Fi on-board, Virgin doesn’t have that,” he said.

“We have our frequent flyer scheme, frequent flyer points that are the envy of the world.”

... if you like toasters. Stiff cheese if you actually want a seat on a plane with $$$$ co-payments.

 

[Scarlett]

So he’s doing his job (in a capitalist economy) then?

(I make no comment about the level of service his company is providing; the thousands of posts this year make that pretty clear! )

 

[Quickstatus]

Mr Joyce, why don’t you sell less tickets. Match it not to the available number of seats on available aircraft but to available employees?.
Just a thought - it’s not really about the number of aircraft. After all, last I looked the aircraft cannot load/unload, takeoff/land, refuel, or maintain itself.
Free advice, but some consideration would be nice