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Qantas board members fly high
How many of us have missed a flight recently and had to apologise to the client for being late or re-schedule the appointment altogether? Not a problem it seems if you are a high flying airline board member.
It was revealed on Friday that three Qantas Directors hired a Cessna to fly from Canberra to Melbourne at a cost of $10,000 because there was no commercial flight available.
The airline’s Chief Financial Officer, Peter Gregg, who approved the charter said , “The directors had an obligation in Melbourne that they had to honour and there were no commercial flights available,” he said. “It was cheaper to charter (the Cessna) than put on another Qantas plane.”
Surely at that level you could organise yourself around the well publicised timetable of flights, even if it meant flying on one of your competitors? Given the recent spate of cost cutting announcements from the QF boardroom, potentially affecting the livelihood of thousands of it’s workers, wouldn’t it be prudent to be seen to be showing a little restraint?
Perhaps even setting an example?
The Transport Workers Union, which represents thousands of Qantas workers, clearly thought so. “It’s not the Australian way to hire a private jet when you’ve just slashed thousands of families’ incomes and contributed to a Federal Government campaign to reduce workers’ rights,” TWU president Tony Sheldon said.
Let’s hope the meeting was worthwhile.
Report by The Mole
Graham Muldoon
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