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Qantas Chair Alan Joyce has revealed he will step down from his multi-million dollar role within 24 hours, and insists Australia’s once treasured airline must focus on its renewal.
He will be replaced by a woman, which is great for optics, but probably not great for the woman who has just broken through the glass ceiling only to be met with a glass cliff of legal proceedings and shareholder tantrums.
The accelerated handover comes after competition regulator launched legal action against Qantas for allegedly selling tickets to flights that had already been cancelled over a three-month period in 2022.
However, it’s not just the selling tickets to cancelled flights that has tarnished the flying kangaroos brand.
There’s also the cruel class war that Joyce has waged on his blue collar workers, using the pandemic as an excuse to sack a whole workforce of baggage handlers and replacing them with untrained labour hire contractors, and then refusing to take responsibility when everyone’s luggage went missing for a year straight.
Mr Joyce has spent 15 years as the airline’s CEO, and extended his tenure at the request of the Qantas board to assist with its recovery from the pandemic.
However, while Joyce claims that he exits the iconic Australian company with a sense of pride over what he has achieved, new revelations have suggested that perhaps he was an Irish sleeper cell, planted in the head office of Qantas with the mission to turn our national carrier into a more European style budget airline.
Ryanair DAC is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier founded in 1984, an airline so stingy that the Irish people are half-proud/half-ashamed of it’s very existence.
Known for charging passengers for a cup of water, flying over warzones to save fuel and lobbying government to allow them to transport passengers on vertically like a packed council bus – the laughing stock of aviation is actually not too far off what Qantas has become in recent years.
However, both Joyce and the vast number of fellow Irish in high-ranking corporate positions at Qantas have denied the allegations that they purposely began cancelling flights and making passengers walk out in to the middle of the tarmac in an effort to flip the prestigious airline into an Australian version of RyanAir.
