Qantas boss in fierce firefight as inquiry turns into inquisition

📆 28/08/2023 10:35 PM

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A Senate inquiry’s grilling of outgoing Qantas boss Alan Joyce was far more heated than the standard parliamentary questioning that many CEOs often endure.

Qantas boss Alan Joyce received a round of applause from sharemarket types when he delivered his final profit as chief executive last week, but the divisive CEO received a far frostier reception at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

Labor senator Tony Sheldon, a former head of the Transport Workers’ Union and long-time critic of Joyce, was particularly forceful. He fired questions at Joyce over issues including the airline’s handling of unused credits for flights that were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic; Qantas’ industrial arrangements with staff; and the damage to its corporate reputation from cancellations.

Most of the topics traversed in the fiery hearing have been covered by Qantas before, and Joyce unsurprisingly stuck to his previous positions. Senators appeared particularly keen to explore the Qatar rejection, no doubt partly because of comments from Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones, who on Monday was quoted as saying the record $2.5 billion profit from Qantas last week was a “good news story”.

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