Far from its glamorous image, the domestic airline industry is 'tough'. It is vulnerable to changing political agendas - which affect both its product market and its employment relations - globalisation, technological change, and even random external events like outbreaks of disease and terrorism. remarkably, all of these factors have impacted on the Australian industry sine the beginning of the 1990s - the pace of change has been frenetic. The outcome is an industry in which competition has become intense and profit margins are low, despite its more benign history in Australia.
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Evolving Employment Relations: Industry Studies from Australia p. 99-118