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Alan Joyce: Riding the Jet Stream
Alan Joyce is no ordinary businessman. Running Australia's national carrier as Qantas CEO, he has been in the spotlight from all sides – media, politicians, unions and the nationalistic Australian public. Highly successful, he has navigated Qantas through the most turbulent times in aviation, mothballing a whole fleet during the pandemic and coming out the other side with the airline still intact when others have ended up in administration or worse. As the most high-profile openly gay businessman in Australia, he has been a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage.
In this memoir, he tells his whole story – from growing up in Dublin, the son of a cleaner and a tobacco factory worker, to becoming the first in his family to be educated at a tertiary level. He explores his career from the Irish national carrier to moving to Australia for Ansett, then becoming CEO of the newly created Jetstar, and finally leading Qantas for more than a decade.
Joyce is an Irishman who can tell a great story and this one will be entertaining, engrossing and revelatory.
In this memoir, he tells his whole story – from growing up in Dublin, the son of a cleaner and a tobacco factory worker, to becoming the first in his family to be educated at a tertiary level. He explores his career from the Irish national carrier to moving to Australia for Ansett, then becoming CEO of the newly created Jetstar, and finally leading Qantas for more than a decade.
Joyce is an Irishman who can tell a great story and this one will be entertaining, engrossing and revelatory.
439 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 4, 2026
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