{"id":8202,"date":"2012-03-22T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/qantas-chief-talks-about-cancer-and-being-gay-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:51:00","slug":"qantas-chief-talks-about-cancer-and-being-gay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/03\/qantas-chief-talks-about-cancer-and-being-gay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas chief talks about cancer, and being gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TravelMole<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rinthjGXarI\/T2qvszOoC_I\/AAAAAAAATzU\/THI9nZBasPo\/s1600\/joyce.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"176\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rinthjGXarI\/T2qvszOoC_I\/AAAAAAAATzU\/THI9nZBasPo\/s200\/joyce.png\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alan Joyce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has opened up on being gay, having cancer and his $5 million salary, in a revealing interview with a men&#8217;s magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce has spoken to GQ magazine about revealing to his family that he was gay, and being treated for prostate cancer last year,The Australian newspaper reported in a preview of the magazine article.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce also defended his $5 million salary, saying pilots are paid more on an hourly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce has shared his life with a New Zealand man since 1999. He talks about the difficulties of growing up gay in Dublin, where his mother was a cleaner and his father worked in a tobacco factory.<\/p>\n<p>In the wide-ranging interview for the April issue of GQ, Joyce says he is paid less to run Qantas than he was to run budget airline Jetstar five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Qantas pays me as CEO is actually very conservative compared with other ASX 100 companies, and if you ranked salaries by hours worked I&#8217;m not even the highest paid person in Qantas because the pilots and senior captains get paid a lot more,&#8221; Joyce says in the article.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview he also admits to making crucial mistakes in his career, including setting up Jetstar without assigned seating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TravelMole Alan Joyce Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has opened up on being gay, having cancer and his $5 million salary, in a revealing interview with a men&#8217;s magazine. Joyce has spoken to GQ magazine about revealing to his family that he was gay, and being treated for prostate cancer last year,The Australian newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}