https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...pilot-shortage
As we stated repeatedly to howls of protest, this shortage is global it is structural and it is demographic. Sorry detractors, but this time it is real.
Qantas management taking the traditional IR approach to this is not going to work.
The mail I’m getting is that they are also going to go for 457 visas for direct entry 737 FOs.
That is correct.
Sources stated that the
Jetconnect and Network play was aimed at establishing the narrative for direct entry contract 457 737 pilots.
Qantas were lobbying in Canberra well before Christmas. This is why it was announced in the Christmas hiatus; it caught the unions napping, digesting their Christmas pudding. From what was communicated by Qantas pilots there has been no further mention of it
Am told that there is quiet concern that this may well get out of hand..