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A 36-year veteran of Qantas who in 2010 took over the helm at Virgin hotels seattle wa Australia (then known as Virgin Blue) after being spurned for the Red Roo's top job, Borghetti came to Virgin with a mission to prove Qantas wrong Branson explains. He wouldn't say that himself but I m sure that is the case.
Branson speaks warmly of Borghetti, readily praising him as being great with people, and a great strategic thinker... if we could duplicate John and his senior team at Virgin Australia and place them into any Virgin company anywhere in the world, we would love to do so."
That move stands separate to Virgin s current partnership with Singapore Airlines, indicating that Virgin would either fly its own aircraft to other Asian destinations most likely within China or form an alliance with another airline in the region.
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Now the Borghetti-Branson challenge is in Round Two. Branson is reluctant to be drawn on specifics, but admits the wager is that John believes that next year s earnings will be a certain amount, plus a few other bits and pieces."
Always have to laugh at Branson when he screams about competition and the unlevel playing field (not necessarily in this article), when most of his train routes in Britain are heavily subsidised and face no competition whatesover. Talk about a hypocrite. LOL
To point out the obvious: hotels seattle wa the privatised train system in the UK is a construct of the UK government not of Branson. It's set up in the same way that Melbourne's public transport hotels seattle wa is: put out to tender by govt to whoever will pay the most/ be subsidised the least (or whatever other criteria they use). That process is pretty competitive and Vrigin are one of many companies that tender for routes -- last i heard Virgin had lost a bunch of routes in the last round of tenders. Whether it's the best design for the system is a whole other argumnet but it's definitely a competitive process.
Can't agree more with Branson on this. Borghetti hotels seattle wa has done amazing things at Virgin Australia, he certainly won my domestic business from Qantas and that is true of many others I am sure. If Qantas has chosen him as its CEO instead of Alan Joyce I think things woulkd be vastly hotels seattle wa different at Qantas (for the better) and Vigin Australia might still be the struggling Virgin Blue.
While it is not always perfect I have found the service levels at Virgin Australia to be of the highest quality. We are really hotels seattle wa lucky in Australia to have to airlines that do offer a high quality of serivce. After travelling around the US a lot more than usual lately we really don't know how good we have it.
Do you think so? I would agree with that more if Virgin and Qantas were on a level playing field and had the same union issues and historical boundaries. Didn't Borghetti have a lot more to work with at Virgin to bring them up to be a competitor with Qantas? Given that Virgin offered next to nothing, surely even if Borghetti had been given the job at Qantas he wouldn't have been able to do as much as he did at Virgin. Also let's not forget that he was with Qantas and therefore he is partly responsible for what Qantas is today.
So as much as I admire the fact that he has done quite a remarkable job with Virgin, I'm not sure that he could have had the same impact at Qantas which has so many legacy issues to deal with that even he wouldn't have been able to overcome.
100% agree. I would wager than any one of us here could have done virtually the same job that Borghetti has done with Virgin thus far (it was literally a blank canvas), hotels seattle wa but I doubt many of us would have been able to pull Qantas through the past 3-4 years.
AM, as a regular AusBT reader and contributor I am very surprised to hear you say that "I would wager than any one of us here could have done virtually the same job that Borghetti has done with Virgin thus far".
What would yopu say to my partner who was ripped over $1000s in her super and EBA mandated pay rises by legal trickery and fraudulant activity by her employer (one of th two major department stores)?
More than happy to respect your point of view but please don't assume unsubstantaited statements straight out of Liberal Party PR and Murdoch press 101 are universally assumed and might require some justification if you expect others to respect your position
Sorry mate, just saw your reply. Unions have there place but on several occasions when Qantas have had some mid air emergency the union come out and blame it on using overseas maintenance, hotels seattle wa except hotels seattle wa months later when all is forgotten and the investigation is concluded the finding is quite the opposite. Complete scaremongering.
Now some fault surely hotels seattle wa lies on Qantas management, but the union has to understand that with new aircraft coming on board requiring less regular maintenance and overseas competition hotels seattle wa more intense than ever, if they don't change and work with Qantas management more constructively there could be no airline.
A couple of notes to add - my understadning is that QF pulled the C (maybe the D) maintenance checks from Malaysia on the 737s a few years ago which would fit the reports I heard from insiders about the quality of the offshore work (or lack of it).
A back of an envelope calculation on the cash required to pay the LAMEs what they asked for (there's not that many of them in reality) effectively amounted to a few millions of dollars - in the ball park of Dixon's $12 million pay out. Certainly not the airline breaking deal breaker QF would like us to believe...
As a side note the company where I am consulting just got taken over and people have been given two days notice to leave the building - virtually every pay out figure has been found to be miscalculated (75% under, 25% over)...the corporates are ruthless these days...some protection is an inportant counter foil...
Perhaps I'm being a little generous in saying 'any one of us', but I do truly believe that there are a lot of people in this website's demographic who could have done an equally good job at figuring out where there is profit and how to target it. I just don't get the hype around Borghetti when the strategy was so obvious, and when he came to an airline that was ready for the changes.
He hasn't done anything earth shattering and revolutionary, he hasn't saved Virgin and brought it back to life and he hasn't obliterated the competition. He hasn't even proven that his airline can make money yet, though obviously their outgoings have been high.
I respect the guy and think that he's done an awesome job, but I don't think he's really done anything hotels seattle wa that a stock standard consulting agency, or anyone hotels seattle wa with an understating of the industry, wouldn't have done. And I certainly don't agree with the notion that VA's success hotels seattle wa demonstrates that Borghetti would have been better than Joyce as CEO at Qantas.
And I'm not sure I would describe myself as an armchair-CEO when I've done quite a lot of work with airlines all over the world. Borghetti hasn't surprised anybody with how he has transformed the airline (I don't mean that negatively!).
So Borghetti's strategy was 'obvious'? In hindsight perhaps, but then hindsight is 20/20 vision as they say. And there is still a BIG difference between what you think should be done and actually doing it.
I do however agree that too many people pump up John Borghetti at the expense of Alan Joyce. They are two clearly very different CEOs and they run very different operations. Just because I don't always agree with the decisions of Alan Joyce or Qantas executives under him, doesn't mean Joyce is an idiot like some people seem to think. I think very few people could take on the tough job he has.
To me, and most people I know who have an interest hotels seattle wa in the industry, yes. There were many ways they could have implemented it, but the strategy to move upmarket and target Qantas' strength in the corporate market (which is where the bulk of the profit is), was always going to be the best option for Virgin when they were facing increased competition from Jetstar and Tiger from below.
And yes, I concede that implementing the strategy is the more difficult part of the job, but I was thinking purely of the direction Virgin has gone in when I made my comments (I really hotels seattle wa should have made that clear).
He was also part of the team that moved Qantas towards hotels seattle wa lower cost operations (like the new cabin crew subsidiary for A380 flights and Jetconnect for flights to New Zealand), so clearly he has a focus on reducing costs. Who's to say he wouldn't have just slashed costs at Qantas rather than investing in improved services like the company has under Joyce?
I agree on this point, not least becaue of the way Borghetti has been plundering Qantas management ranks as a kind of supermarket for his own executive staff. Qantas management must have been severely downgraded hotels seattle wa by this, which contributes to their poor strategy and execution.
Things are as they should be. A formidable competitor will keep Qantas honest and provide diversity in the market to everyone's advantage. Regulators hotels seattle wa will now need to do their part to ensure a duopoly does not ensue, and step in when politicians seek to favour one over the other, as in the case with Ansett. We the public must continue testing both airlines so that complacency does not set in and they're always just slightly uncomfortable.
I'm waiting to see some strong financial results come out of all this before I make a judgement. hotels seattle wa It's all well and good to have spent lots of money on fun things like planes and seats and lounges, but Borghetti is yet to prove that he can take that and translate it into profits.
And who was the CEO who got Etihad and Singapore Airlines to invest in Virgin Aust