Qantas cuts Auckland flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

[JessicaTam]

As has QF149. More Flounge time!

Could be an expensive change of QF! Heheheh

 

[TomVexille]

Could be an expensive change of QF! Heheheh

I have no doubt

 

[Brettmcg]

Qantas Goes Daily to Queenstown

23 January 2014

Qantas today announced it will increase its services between Sydney and Queenstown during the Easter school holidays and peak ski season. Qantas currently operates three flights per week between Sydney and Queenstown and will add two extra services per week to support demand over the Easter school holidays and support the Queenstown ski season with daily flights through to the end of August. The additional services will commence on 7 April and finish on 24 October 2014. The amended schedule as follows: 7 April - 2 May: 5 per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) 3 May - 4 June: 3 per week (Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday) 6 June - 2 July: 4 per week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) 4 July - 31 August: Daily 1 September - 24 October: 5 per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) Qantas also operates a weekly Brisbane-Queenstown service on Saturdays during the peak ski season from 28 June to 27 September. The Qantas Group currently operates more than 200 flights each week between Australia and New Zealand. *operated by Jetconnect for Qantas

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Last time I flew BNE-AKL there was a passenger almost verbally abusing the ground staff in Brisbane when they saw the plane was a Qantas Boeing 737.

They said that they had booked with Emirates and as it was an EK flight number the demanded to be put onto an Emirates flight - even though this was on QF126 (so in the evening) and the next Emirates flight wasn't til the following day... Apparently this person had never heard of codesharing...

"Almost verbally abusing the ground staff".....is that the same a being 'a little bit pregnant'???

 

[bPeteb]

and then there's those changes to flights to Christchurch from Brisbane. Oh wait, there's none!

 

[RAM]

It's Alan Joyce. He worked at Aer Lingus before joining Ansett. Then fled Ansett for Qantas a year before it collapsed, then was JQ CEO from its founding until Geoff Dixon left.
He built JQ. His actions at QF since his promotion to CEO all point to his wanting to keep building up JQ over QF.

I looked into his past CV - he was an entry level/junior in Ireland and appears has always been able to sell himself well to headhunters/hr & boards - knows what to tell them that they want to hear.

I wouldn't confuse spin with ability.

Just like Toyota found to its peril (not quite a near death experience but cutting over a million car production capacity was not cheap) as well as its previous reputation as a successful cost cutter until it found that once costs are cut beyond a certain level then reliability & quality fall. Since 2007 they have issued more 'recall notices' and as you'd expect recalled more cars for faults (many potentially fatal) than in their previous 50 years combined.

Spin by supposed 'high-powered' execs often is found wanting, just look at what has gone on with Myer over the last few days - new 'hero-hire' turns out to have a wonderful imagination rather than an accurate CV. They only found out when a potential competitor warned Myer that he had never been a senior exec with them. Somehow the due diligence and checks by both Myer's headhunter, HR department and board didn't check the guy's last claimed position.

Wonder if AJ will find a home post Q?

 

[Mr_Orange]

Qantas Goes Daily to Queenstown

23 January 2014

Yep, already got our BNE-ZQN flights booked for some fun in the snow .

 

[TomVexille]

and then there's those changes to flights to Christchurch from Brisbane. Oh wait, there's none!

Same with the MEL-CHC flights