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The Federal Government’s QantasKeeper Programme will officially start next month with subsidies on air tickets and Qantas wages being made available from April 1.
The news has been met with criticism from other airline chiefs, including the one from Rex, who said it’s bullshit that Qantas gets a wedge of money but his little airline that could gets next to nothing.
“How did Alan Joyce get such a sweet deal?” the chairman asked our reporter.
Our reporter said he didn’t know but hoped to find out by the time this article goes to print.
“I reckon it’s a load of shit. Fuck this government, they have done nothing for us. They didn’t even say well done guys when we got a couple Boeings in. Tell you what, a lot of pollies have shares in Qantas. Just sayin’,”
“So yeah, if you could telluce [sic] how they [Qantas] got their sweet deal, that’d be great.”
After making a number of enquires on behalf of Rex, it turns out it was a relatively simple process that Alan Joyce went through to get taxpayers to pay for the running of his airline.
Some self-loathing meat sack in the Prime Minister’s Office that The Advocate spoke to this afternoon explained Mr Joyce simply joined the queue down at his local Centrelink and filled in the appropriate paperwork.
“If that Mr Rex wants some free money, too, he’s got to go down to the dole office and put his hand out like Alan did,” said the meat sack.
“Other than that, I dunno. He could do a raise? I don’t know. It’s Friday afternoon, mate. Go home. Go to the pub, do whatever you want.”
The Rex Chairman thanked The Advocate for find out how Joyce got it done. He will go down to his local Centrelink on Monday, he says.
More to come.
