Cheers for the insights, but wouldn’t displacing more pilots when recruitment is going gang busters be very expensive (eg. a 747 captain could potentially displace 3 or 4 other captains and so on), and like Keg said, make a lot of pilots sit around in training courses not actually flying planes?
I totally understand about pilots wanting to go to a plane that keeps their pay drop to a minimum (I would too), however, wouldn’t QF just turn around and say there’s is an increase in pilots required hence no reductions of numbers? So they only need to convert the 747 guys? As it seems a very expensive and inefficient way of doing business.