Qantas' entire fleet grounded

[Bully]

fantastic news. Good on them. Stick it up the greedy unions!!! They cant get there way all the time. Im sure there are plenty of out of work aussies that would step in and cover it.

Time also for our lame duck PM to show her colours!!!!

Yeah and Joyce is happy to pay himself handsomely but his workers peanuts... So he will attract monkeys....good luck flying with his airline in future.... I'm on the unions side, they are at least trying to represent Qantas workers and show some compassion - Joyce clearly has none for either his staff or his passengers He is an arrogant prick that only looks at one thing.... $$$$$$$

maybe so, i dont agree with him at al, allan is greedy etcl. My point is as usual the greedy UNIONS want everything there way.

Have never been with a union and that has made me the person i am today

[Footy Chick]

I'm at Melbourne airport as we speak...thank god Im flying Virgin!

I didnt find out about the grounding until we landed... I was wondering why the tarmac and runways looked like a ghost town.

Couldnt help but go for a wander down the the QANTAS terminal...not pretty

[Sky Pilot]

are you really a flying virgin FC?

[Bully]

I'm at Melbourne airport as we speak...thank god Im flying Virgin!

I didnt find out about the grounding until we landed... I was wondering why the tarmac and runways looked like a ghost town.

Couldnt help but go for a wander down the the QANTAS terminal...not pretty

walk past the Sky news live report out the front ...im watching it at the moment

[Chuck Wepner]

fantastic news. Good on them. Stick it up the greedy unions!!! They cant get there way all the time. Im sure there are plenty of out of work aussies that would step in and cover it.

Time also for our lame duck PM to show her colours!!!!

Yeah and Joyce is happy to pay himself handsomely but his workers peanuts... So he will attract monkeys....good luck flying with his airline in future.... I'm on the unions side, they are at least trying to represent Qantas workers and show some compassion - Joyce clearly has none for either his staff or his passengers He is an arrogant prick that only looks at one thing.... $$$$$$$

maybe so, i dont agree with him at al, allan is greedy etcl. My point is as usual the greedy UNIONS want everything there way.

Have never been with a union and that has made me the person i am today

You are probably very lucky that you've never had a boss like Alan Joyce then....

[Dirko]

You are probably very lucky that you've never had a boss like Alan Joyce then....

Hit.Nail.Head

[Booney]

Biggest news story of 2011.

[Bully]

You are probably very lucky that you've never had a boss like Alan Joyce then....

Hit.Nail.Head

i think its the case he has got his timing right, seen as all the chiefs around the country at the moment.

[Dirko]

Alan Joyce, left Ansett 2000. Ansett collapsed 2001. Coincidence....

[Pseudo]

... and funny how this action happened after the AGM yesterday

... and after my QANTAS club membership was renewed for two more years.

[Pseudo]

thank god Im flying Virgin!

a brief foray into the onboard toilet with your seatmate would fix that, plus grant you entry into the mile high club

[Brucetiki]

The Government is to immediately seek orders to terminate all industrial action according to Sky News

UPDATE: Fair work meeting set for 9:30pm tonight in Melbourne

[Sky Pilot]

I'd be getting Eddie McGuire to fix it

[Gozu]

"Transport Minister attacks Qantas actions, questions maturity of CEO Joyce":

“I find it extraordinary that a board meeting should have suddenly decided on this course of action this morning less than a day after it held an annual general meeting.

“There has to be planning involved in this. I leave it to those who know how aviation operates to ponder the timing of this.”

Minister Albanese said the disputes between Qantas and its pilots, licensed engineers and ground staff were capable of being resolved by mature adults.

“I made it very clear to Mr Joyce that I was very disturbed that we had conducted a number of discussions with Qantas during which no reference had been made to the possibility of such action being taken by the airline,” he said.

Albanese also made it clear that he had been in close consultation with the CEO of Virgin Australia, John Borghetti, following his conversation with Alan Joyce and that Virgin Australia had undertook to make every effort to step into the breach caused by the Qantas groundings with additional capacity.

While the Minister was expressing his lack of confidence in the Qantas board and Alan Joyce, the Vice President of the Qantas pilot union, Richard Woodward, said he knew that Qantas had booked thousands of hotel rooms world wide in advance of its action to ground all of it international and domestic flights some weeks ago, and had been negotiating replacement flights with Cathay Pacific up to several months ago.

Woodward said the Qantas action was in his opinion premeditated and well planned, and queried Joyce’s stability, describing his performance this afternoon as ‘bordering on the maniacal.”

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking ... ceo-joyce/

[DOC]

fantastic news. Good on them. Stick it up the greedy unions!!! They cant get there way all the time. Im sure there are plenty of out of work aussies that would step in and cover it.

Time also for our lame duck PM to show her colours!!!!

Yeah and Joyce is happy to pay himself handsomely but his workers peanuts... So he will attract monkeys....good luck flying with his airline in future.... I'm on the unions side, they are at least trying to represent Qantas workers and show some compassion - Joyce clearly has none for either his staff or his passengers He is an arrogant prick that only looks at one thing.... $$$$$$$

maybe so, i dont agree with him at al, allan is greedy etcl. My point is as usual the greedy UNIONS want everything there way.

Have never been with a union and that has made me the person i am today :lol:

I 'm thinking your'e drinking.

[redandblack]

I'm thinking he should join a union

This is an act of bastardry, by a boss who just got a 70% pay rise, now on $5 million, who wants to take the company offshore.

He'll only get support from those who support the top end of town over the workers.

(Oh, and those on here who have turned on their auto-pilot and whine out the usual "it's all the government's fault).

Not good, Mr Joyce.

[DOC]

and its 20 million A DAY loss for Qantas...not 15 million a week

They turn that over in a day so hard to lose that much as a profit. Its missed turnover. Profit is from their last figures closer to $600,000 per day.

[Brucetiki]

LOL at the TWU tool on SkyNews acting all innocent over this

[once_were_warriors]

This is such a stupid action.

As bad as some of the claims of the unions, in particular the pilots, this is monumentally ridiculous.

You work through a few stoppages , delay to flights and negotiate, shutting down the whole business will just give all the punters no confidence in Qantas.

You think Qantas struggle to pay a dividend now , they won't be paying one for the next 5 years after this.

[southee]

Excellent move by Joyce !!!

Total respect ..... Unions have to many radicals in them with over the top demands.

These people need to be thankful they even have a job in this climate .

BTW .... I thought the labor government said the liberals with have more strikes if in office???

What a weak as p**s government we have at the moment .... At least Joyce had the balls to actually be proactive and do something !!!!