A week before Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson diverted her maiden annual profit of $1.25 billion, QF6 — a B787 landing in Perth from London — blew a tyre that damaged its fuselage.
It’s an apt enough metaphor for the company’s fall in profits — down 28% but from record levels. It’s also emblematic of the problems that Hudson said the company has been having in its international division, the one which has done the most damage to what is otherwise the result of a still well-oiled senior industry monopolist.
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