Jetstar unveils thin client, BYO laptop vision

[Damian N]

What next.....BYO chair? desk?

[James K]

The low-cost offshoot of Qantas spends around 1 per cent of its revenue on IT annually.

Aint that the truth!

[Kelvin R]

1% is still high compared to some of the EU LCC. Tiger's is probably 0.5%.

[Montague S]

just curious, does anyone know what type of system QF uses for check-in etc? I noticed that WYSE systems are at Jetstar, we have them at Avis too...just wondering if its all a similar set-up?

[Mick F]

But don't you also see employees with cheap and underspeed machines as being a problem too Andrew?

What part of Jetstar do you work in?

Mick

[Stephen Brown]

Thin Clients work great while the background Network is up, network goes down and you're in a world of hurt.

[Kelvin R]

That's not entirely true, as the latest version of Citrix has an offline function. I imagine this or a Vmware image is what is going to be on the 16 Gb image on the flash card provided for the laptops.