trentis
Feb 7, 02, 12:28 am
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This certainly relieves me...I hate the way the media plays with our emotions. Although I don't think all this negative publicity will be necessarily bad for Ansett, because then everyone will see how good Tesna really will be when it gets up and running http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif
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AN Update
A news report for Ansett employees
AN Update 022
7 February 2002
AN UPDATE FROM JAMES HOGAN CEO:
It seems timely to provide all employees with another update on the progress of the sale, a process I can assure you the principals of Tesna Holdings Pty Ltd are determined to complete as soon as possible.
Tesna - Solomon Lew, Lindsay Fox, David Bonderman and Bill Franke - remain as committed as ever to this aim, we are making strong forward progress and expect to reach a sale settlement well before the end of the 30-day extension granted for the sale completion date.
Lindsay Fox told some of you in addresses to staff this week that only three significant issues were to be finalised in order to complete the sale. The emphasis here should be on the word "finalised". We have not to date reached any impasses on the road to finalising what all must understand is an incredibly complex transaction. We are making strong progress on:
finalising the transfer of airport leases to Tesna,
finalising leasing arrangements for existing Ansett aircraft pending delivery of our brand new aircraft (which are now coming directly from Airbus Industrie, configured to our specifications)
finalising licensing for a number of information technology services.
I would also like to say how pleased I am to see the attitude of many staff who are unconcerned at the many speculative media reports circulating us at present.
It is important for all to understand that we are, as a group, extremely newsworthy. However, we will complete this deal and together create a great airline.
The combination of our major investors, our Administrators 'Andersens', our high profile brand and our yet to be revealed commercial plans are of significant news interest to many stakeholders, and hence to many members of the media. Nevertheless we do not feel compelled to reveal details regarding the investor's activities nor our future commercial and resourcing plans, at this stage.
I am pleased to see so many of you disregarding the speculation and at the same time are forging ahead on the operations and customer service projects which are progressing so well.
Obviously we are all focused completing the deal and to delivering Australian air travellers an unmatched standard of in-flight service. In the meantime you should all take pride in the fact that your continued outstanding service augurs extremely well for our competitive future moving forward.
James Hogan
This certainly relieves me...I hate the way the media plays with our emotions. Although I don't think all this negative publicity will be necessarily bad for Ansett, because then everyone will see how good Tesna really will be when it gets up and running http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif
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AN Update
A news report for Ansett employees
AN Update 022
7 February 2002
AN UPDATE FROM JAMES HOGAN CEO:
It seems timely to provide all employees with another update on the progress of the sale, a process I can assure you the principals of Tesna Holdings Pty Ltd are determined to complete as soon as possible.
Tesna - Solomon Lew, Lindsay Fox, David Bonderman and Bill Franke - remain as committed as ever to this aim, we are making strong forward progress and expect to reach a sale settlement well before the end of the 30-day extension granted for the sale completion date.
Lindsay Fox told some of you in addresses to staff this week that only three significant issues were to be finalised in order to complete the sale. The emphasis here should be on the word "finalised". We have not to date reached any impasses on the road to finalising what all must understand is an incredibly complex transaction. We are making strong progress on:
finalising the transfer of airport leases to Tesna,
finalising leasing arrangements for existing Ansett aircraft pending delivery of our brand new aircraft (which are now coming directly from Airbus Industrie, configured to our specifications)
finalising licensing for a number of information technology services.
I would also like to say how pleased I am to see the attitude of many staff who are unconcerned at the many speculative media reports circulating us at present.
It is important for all to understand that we are, as a group, extremely newsworthy. However, we will complete this deal and together create a great airline.
The combination of our major investors, our Administrators 'Andersens', our high profile brand and our yet to be revealed commercial plans are of significant news interest to many stakeholders, and hence to many members of the media. Nevertheless we do not feel compelled to reveal details regarding the investor's activities nor our future commercial and resourcing plans, at this stage.
I am pleased to see so many of you disregarding the speculation and at the same time are forging ahead on the operations and customer service projects which are progressing so well.
Obviously we are all focused completing the deal and to delivering Australian air travellers an unmatched standard of in-flight service. In the meantime you should all take pride in the fact that your continued outstanding service augurs extremely well for our competitive future moving forward.
James Hogan