4 questions lodged at 2026 Flight Centre (FLT) hybrid AGM
November 11, 2026
Below is the text of the 4 written questions submitted at the 70 minute Flight Centre (FLT) 10am Brisbane time hybrid AGM via the Computershare platform on November 10, 2026. See notice of meeting detailing 4 voting resolutions. Market cap $2.49b on AGM day. The last decent effort was these 7 questions at the 2023 AGM. The proxies were disclosed early in the formal addresses. There was a 25.3% rem strike and 14% against the re-election of John Eales, with ISS recommending against both. They came through with the head count data in the poll results again.
Q1. There was a 14% proxy vote against the re-election of John Eales. Was this caused by a recommendation by one of the proxy advisers? If so, what concern was raised? Corporate voting is not a secret ballot and the AGM is essentially an election results announcement event so please do your best Antony Green impersonation and explain why there has been a swing against John Eales by voters following his latest 3 year term.
Answer: was jammed at Downer EDI so awaiting the webcast archive, if they respond positively to the suggestion in question 4 below. However, chair Gary Smith used his formal address to call out ISS for recommending against its rem report and John Eales.
Q2. Based on the proxies, we have suffered a narrow 25.3% remuneration strike today. Was this caused by against recommendations by proxy advisers? If so, please share what you know about the big end of town debate with us small shareholders at the AGM trying to make sense of what is going on? Also, is there a chance a strike could be averted with the use of undirected proxies held by the chair and those shareholders voting from the floor today?
Answer: was jammed at Downer EDI so awaiting the webcast archive, if they respond positively to the suggestion in question 4 below. However, chair Gary Smith used his formal address to call out ISS for recommending against its rem report and John Eales. The poll results showed they finished with a 25.24% strike from just 212 voting shareholders.
Q3. Have we run a competitive tender for the audit during Ernst and Young's 13 year run with the job? If not, when are we next planning to run a competitive tender for the audit? Could incoming audit committee chair Gareth Turner please comment on what he thinks about the new UK laws which mandate audit tenders every 10 years and a change of audit firm every 20 years. Please don't talk about 5 yearly partner rotation. We all know that has been the law for 20 years.
Answer: was jammed at Downer EDI so awaiting the webcast archive, if they respond positively to the suggestion in question 4 below.
Q4. Thank you for disclosing the proxy voting data before the AGM along with the formal addresses since 2011 and doing the head count data in the poll results since 2023. This is best practice. I just need you to lift your game on publishing an archive of AGM webcasts online and you'll be in the top 10 ASX listed companies for AGM practice, including your consistent use of the best practice hybrid model since COVID. How about getting with the webcast archive club and joining the likes of Suncorp, Myer, Stockland and Computershare in the overall best practice AGM club?
Answer: "Smithy" the chair got a laugh out of this and said they're very competitive and want to be a top 5 company. On the substantive request, he said they'd look into publishing the AGM webcasts but there may be some technical issues. How hard can it be? Watch video of exchange via Twitter.
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