Poirot,
yeah, that just goes to show that it's cheaper to give away tickets than dealing with unions. Smart move indeed. It would have cost many, many millions more to not make that call.

Well there you go, individual.
It seems that some people are impressed by a little conjuring and a company acting like a side-show carnival.

Roll-up...roll-up....

Dear Raw Mustard and Individual,

I'm trying to think of an appropriate word
to describe your reasoning:

Callithumpian!

I have an inquiring mind Indy, not a closed one.
I get it wrong, often but not always.
And if I wanted too? could both defend and pick holes in our government in those years, My ALP 1972 till 11 November 1975.
You probably, almost certainly, do not know that day and month was the day Ned Kelly hung.
And ww 1 ended.
I remain open to learning, tell me, please, how did the actions of that government impact on todays Greece?
Your lost comment if true, would seem to enrich that economy.
Writing slowly, try to keep up,we have treaty's, International ones.
These see, not just your targeted Greeks, haveing worked and paid tax's here maybe for decades, but Australians get paid their pensions in country's they chose to live out their life in.
Note Friend, your heated STANDARD reply, is it your wish to be free to dump the contents of your verbal rubbish tin on others but not have it returned?
Comments from all views add to the debate, but yours are as usual a reason to spew thoughts about life time of hating Labor.
And come across, to me at least as uninformed and as worthless as any I ever saw.

*It seems that some people are impressed by a little conjuring and a company acting like a side-show carnival.*

Nope Poirot, its just that lefties like you and Lexi, commonly seem
to have a terrible time using a calculator. So I'll work it all
out for you to make it really easy :)

Qantas was losing 15 million $ a week through the unions industrial
action and were told that the unions would "bake them slowly" for
another year or so. Not about wages, btw, but about the Qantas
managements right to manage their company. The unions held all the
ace cards.

15 million by 50 weeks = around 750 million $ of potential losses.

Shut the airline down and achieve certainty = 30 million. Free
tickets = 20 million. Total 50 million. Qantas saved a potential
700 million $ worth of losses by their action, hardly a silly thing
to do.

Dear Yabby,

Nope. It seems that you're only fixated on profits.
But it's hard I know for you to see the bigger
picture when you've got such a small screen.

Try the following website:

http://newmatilda.com/2011/11/01/naked-conflict-between-profits-and-wages