Originally Posted by
yy16
With all the talk of RIN, what if Qantas puts all the new 787s in Sydney, turn around and say no reduction in numbers, here are the redeployment vacancies you can bid for, what happens then? Cause that seems a lot cheaper than doing all these extra training courses.
You can only offer redeployment positions as part of a RIN.
If what youre saying is that Qantas simply advertises the 787 slots and says nothing to the 744 drivers then they’ll still need to eventually do a RIN. The 744 drivers are under no compulsion to bid for those slots- and why would they given they’d go to year 1 pay when they can wait for the RIN and go to year 4 pay.
The real question is how do you keep flying 4-6 744s until the end of 2020 whilst simultaneously taking delivery of the last of the 787s? One way is to run divisors on the 787 and A380 close to maximum in the lead up to the 744 retirement so that RIN’d 744 drivers then retraining to those types don’t create too much of a surplus. I suspect more likely is additional 787 orders for arrival from late 2020 through 2021 on which the now surplus 744 drivers can go to. Some will obviously still exercise their right to displace to the A380.