To suggest that the airline’s settlement over the ghost flights matter makes Qantas a trustworthy company is to be wilfully blind to its recent history.
Vanessa Hudson has taken on the Herculean task of trying to restore the relationship with Qantas customers and staff – and reweight the division of the spoils.
The Aussie off-shoot of America’s “conservative Coachella” went on pilgrimage to experience the real thing in Washington,DC.
The febrile hunt for profiteers in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis meant Australia’s largest companies had to worry about the potentially disastrous consequences of doing too well.
Brad Banducci,like Alan Joyce before him,was very good at lobbying governments. But the public lost patience with them,so they checked out.
Overhauling its board as it seeks to restore its reputation,the airline has appointed the Brambles and Treasury Wine Estates’ chair to lead its directors from July.
The former Qantas chief is on indefinite leave from the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art,to which he is a generous patron.
The former Qantas boss said he had intended to return to STC as chair but “current challenges” facing the institution required more time in the role than he could give.
Alan Joyce’s tumultuous final few years at Qantas will be covered in a book titled The Chairman’s Lounge by former AFR columnist Joe Aston.
Peter Dutton said a meeting between Albanese and Joyce raised questions about their relationship. The PM labelled the claim absurd.
The government came under sustained pressure last year to explain its decision to reject Qatar’s August 2022 bid to double its flights to the country.