congrats alan joyce. give that man a raise.

I hope someone estimates how much the decision to ground the fleet and lance this union boil ultimately saves the company. Planned ongoing stoppages by TWU members into the future, (either carried out or cancelled at the last minute) would have affected far more than the 70-80,000 customers this grounding affected and slow baked the company, as was stated as it's intention, by the unions involved.
This man, Tony Sheldon, soon to be a leader of the Labor party, is emminently qualified for that position with the attitude of baking this company or any other.
There was no compassion for the public by the union in striking on several occasions over the last several weeks (indeed utter contempt at then cancelling their strike action at short notice) and now whinging about the disruption to the public by Qantas in applying the lance.
The savings achieved, as mentioned above, would probably equate to the salary increase for AJ as being very very well spent.