......agree there percy
There was a piece in the paper on Luxon the other day ....covered a lot of things but one thing missing was his vision for NZ ....didn’t have a vision for AIR either
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Cabin service in AIRplanes should be improving ... a young Luxon apparently is now one of them.
Wonder whether he would work with Winston.?...........................lol.
I agree. I think he heavily incentivised his executive and management and then looked the other way.
He certainly inherited an airline with a very strong profit base and culture set up by Fyfe then milked it.
Both have deteriorated.
An indication of his Regard for Air NZ was the way he walked away to immediately pursue his own interests. No gradual handover like he enjoyed when appointed and it left the company in limbo for months.
A window on how he will be as a politician. No different from the rest, but having a hard, right wing, conservative agenda, heavily influenced by his Christian ‘faith’ and personal aspirations.
A man to be wary of.
All only in my opinion of course.
Shareholders rejoice at the rumour AIR call centre going to Phillipines to save money
Customers probably lament the move fearing worse service
I agree with you.
Luxon added so very little to Air NZ - and he never hid his self proclaimed 'socially conservative' views from the comapny and he did in fact allow them to blur his decision making. He was solely responsible for the cessation of the popular PINK Flight to Sydney. It's not my cup of tea but it MADE MONEY and garnered a truckload of free press every year.
Luxon just proves that a well spoken white man in suit will suck every schmuk in.
Fyfe did the hard yards and created a real drive forward engaged workforce - all Luxon did was dismantle it and run the business down to deliver maximum shareholder return in the short term all the while delivering progressively lower and lower profits.
Dont overlook that at the same time the board upped the short term incentive plan - largely based on share price numbers the business was having some $50 gutted from it. It was not overly bloated and all that seemed to happen was the same old story. The 10 workers in a department were told they were now 6 and to just deal with it.
Don't forget that under this caring Christians' watch full time low paying jobs like aircraft loaders and airport check in people suddenly became part time full time jobs - still low paid only just now the day was split into 2 with an idle 3 -4 hours in between shifts. It goes on and on.
Luxon was a smooth talking well presented man of little substance in my view (I have met him many times and know his reasonably well), he bolted when Key assured him now was the time to jump into the NATS.
If you are a hard right religious type then this guy is your man. Pity the rest of us.
I have way better feeling for Foran as a leader - early indications bode well for his people skills, time will tell.
Most people I know who work for AIR rated Chris Luxon very well and are sad he's gone. Greg Foran with his background is going to be ruthless in cutting costs and will need to be. I am sick and tired of other companies pandering and encouraging all things LGTBQ so good on him for cancelling the pink flights.
Couple of reports out overnight I have seen suggest air travel within the Asia Pacific region previously forecast to grow at 4.5% in 2020 could contract by as much as 8% this year and that's just based on known information about the virus at this time.
If this becomes a worldwide pandemic, look out, demand for air travel will fall off the face of a cliff like nothing anyone has ever seen before. You will see what cost cutting really feels like then...for example Cathay Pacific have asked many of their workers to take unpaid leave until June, (which could easily be restated to a later month). Good luck to those that don't have a decent nest egg for a rainy day.
Foran will do whatever needs to be done to ensure the survival of the airline and you'll probably look back and think Chris Luxon was a kind caring person after all...that's my prediction. AIR is a clear SELL in my view with known risks. Fair value is where the shares are now, (before there was any virus risk at all) and nothing whatsoever has come off to account for known virus risks...I leave it to others to judge whether that's logical or not.
Sydney Customs hall quiet as
Pretty revealing image for those who know what Sydney is like.
https://twitter.com/chaudave/status/...704451072?s=21