Opinion: It’s All Over For The Maestro

Alan Joyce has left the building – and things are about to get a lot less fun around here

And with that, he was gone.

He snuck away, in the dead of night, leaving, if not a broken-hearted maiden, one feeling rather teary about the row they just had. It didn’t have to be this way, though, did it? What about all the good times? You were meant to leave us with the promise of direct flights from New York to Sydney. A refreshed domestic fleet and a national carrier making billions in profit. Now there’s just that tawdry row with the ACCC to deal with and a new, media-shy CEO trying to pick up the pieces.