Virgin staff get the blues as new boss sweeps through company

[pauly7]

INSIDE Virgin Blue's spiffy new campus in Bowen Hills, there's a sense of apprehension in the workforce as the airline struggles to maintain its traditional appeal to leisure travellers, while also attracting more corporate customers. New chief executive John Borghetti is orchestrating a review of operations as well as a structural reorganisation which has seen a number of the old guard shown the door


Virgin staff get the blues as new boss sweeps through company | Courier Mail






There has been alot of gossip that morale was down at DJ but now its hit the press. I actually think its a good thing he's cleaning out alot of the LCC old boys and girls - they really need fresh people and fresh attitude to get away from their LCC model.


Interesting the comment on pulling back the domestic network.... wonder which routes will get culled or scaled back?

 

[anat0l]

If there were any signs of workplace discord in Virgin Blue, it certainly wasn't showing at the customer coal face or through the press. So this comes as a complete shock to me. OK, not that any workplace is completely free of 'blues'...

The article seems to portray that Borghetti had a previous score to settle. Not that that is relevant to the remainder of the article.

Lastly, there is this thing about V Australia being a loss-maker? The airline has only had a year in the game, and it can't be as bad as the article makes it out to be, right?

I think the use of the words 'diabolical dilemma' are a bit over the top.

 

[Homer]

I think the use of the words 'diabolical dilemma' are a bit over the top.

Yep, but as someone who trained as a journo let me just say that it would have been more about the irresistible alliteration than the precise meaning of the words.