Qantas boss to outline big international shake-up

[Malcolm Parker]

22 JUN: Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will outline major changes to international operations in a luncheon speech to the National Press Club in Canberra today, Fairfax media reports this morning.

Fairfax speculates that the changes will include abandoning some routes and having others taken over by Jetstar.

There’s also likely to be greater use of alliance partners.

Mr Joyce on several occasion recently has made it clear that the international division is losing money and the Fairfax report puts the figure at $200m a year.

Today’s speech, which is scheduled to be broadcast on ABC-TV at 12.30pm, could be interesting in more ways than one.

Fairfax says that the airline’s industrial arch-enemy, the Transport Workers Union, is believed to have booked a table at the lunch.

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I thought as an airline to survive it should expand and not contract. I guess it won't be too long and Qantas wil be taken over as the larget interntional airline even out of Sydney - what a joke that would be!!