Vanessa Hudson is a Qantas lifer who has worked in almost all parts of the airline. But it was her success in steering the group through the pandemic that sealed her promotion.
Your customers are locked in their homes, your planes are grounded overnight and your revenue evaporates. But the costs keep piling up, and the numbers say you’re just 11 weeks from going out of business.
Hudson also said the COVID-19 period had also prepared her for the white-hot glare that the chief executive of Qantas must operate in.“The last three years, if I think about the decisions that we collectively made to get us through COVID, it wasn’t for the faint-hearted,” she said. “Coming through the experience was probably the best training that I could even have.”
Hudson said all the right things about seeking a constructive relationship with Qantas’ unions, but her role in that cost-cutting program means relations will remain extremely frosty.Goyder announced the replacement of Qantas’ long-standing chief executive just a day after announcing the replacement of a long-standing chief executive of the AFL,The similarities between the two announcements are remarkable. At both organisations, a global search has ended just down the corridor.
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