"Bruce" wrote in message
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"Graham Harrison" wrote:
I think the statements that spooked the markets came from a forthright
and particularly well-informed senior manager of QANTAS.


Didn't help I agree although whether he was as well informed as he thought
he was is another matter.


Well, at the start, he called it right. The as the story unfolded, he
called it right. The eventual solution? He called that right too.

From the beginning to the end (today's announcement of a limited
return to traffic) he called it right.

He was either particularly well-informed or spectacularly lucky.
Personally, I don't think luck came into it.

Perhaps you felt he came across as a little arrogant, but I think it
was the mark of a man who knew his subject inside out and wasn't
afraid to speak his mind. So he upset a few people at RR? Strikes me
that they needed a kick up the backside.

But I'm not a Little Englander who objects when someone well-informed
from a former British colony fearlessly speaks their mind ... I
admired him for what he did in defence of his employer, the
international airline with the best reputation for safety of any in
the world.


I couldn't care less that he isn't from the UK or that he sounded arrogant
(did he?). I'll agree he made the right decisions but I remain to be
convinced he did it from a position of knowledge. The impression I gained
was that Qantas (as a company, not one individual) chose to wait until RR
had done their job, analysed the problem, using (among other things) the
undoubted expertise of Qantas. But, remember that RR provide QF with a
complete package, including maintenance undertaken by LH so I question how
much expertise QF were able to offer on this occasion.

And yes, RR handled the whole incident spectacularly badly.