BUSINESS:
Qantas staff organising the company’s annual general meeting in Melbourne next week are grappling with an unusual and unprecedented request that may affect the outcome of any votes on the positions of its board of directors.
An air hostess and shareholder who previously worked for Qantas and now employed by an airline operating in Ireland has demanded a first-class ticket to Australia to attend the AGM.
In an exclusive interview with The Bug’s Dublin bureau the woman, Joyce Alan who works for a subsidiary of Irish carrier Aer Lingus, (main picture) said she also wanted temporary membership of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge for for what would be a very short stay in Australia.
“Oi tink dat’s only fair,” Ms Alan said. “Oi joost want to be dare long enuff ta go to da AGM to defend moiself… Oi mean, to defend da former CEO of Qantas, dat brilliant visionary Alan Joyce, for all da tings he did to benefit shareholders loik me and Australians in general.
“Someone needs ta be at da AGM to plead my… I mean, his case and dat’s me.”
Ms Alan said she had most recently worked in the aviation industry in Australia but refused to provide details of her past employment.
However, she did say she was enjoying her new job with Con Aer Lingus, a specialised subsidiary of Aer Lingus that holds the contract for transporting prisoners within Ireland and the UK.
“It’s a foin job, alldoe Oi moost admit dat Con Aer Lingus is something totally alien to me – a hole noo experience,” she said.
Ms Alan spoke to The Bug exclusively on several conditions.
“Foist, Oi don’t want ya presenting moi comments in some sorta fake Oirish accent which is joost insoolting if not borderloin racist,” she said.
“And annuder ting. Please, please don’t use the term ‘air hostess’ or even worse, ‘hostie’, to describe me, especially in da headloin.
“It’s sooch a saxist and outdated toim,” she said.
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