Originally Posted by
Fatguyinalittlecoat
With all due respect, you are not going to lose your jobs. You may have to do a type course and for some, you may lose a bit of money, but it’s hardly the bleeding heart situation you are portraying. Get a grip.
Fatguyinalittlecoat
History: A few months before the (rapid) closer announcements of the Brisbane B-747 posting apparently the BNE Manager reassured all the B-747 Pilots of the future of the B-747 operation (not his fault he was working on the information management feed to him) was assured and our colleagues worked with that information.
A lot of younger Pilots apparently purchased land to build on in SEQLD. Some purchased established homes. Wifes took contract Employment. Children were placed in Private Schools older Adolescent Children enrolled in Tertiary Education Institutions and Universities. Mortgages and Loans were arranged for Building homes and Education etc, etc!
Then the B-747 retirement announcement happened! Soon to be followed by a RIN within the next eighteen to twenty-four months.
It's not the pilots Fatguyinalittlecoat – it’s the families! We, Pilots, are used to dynamic change, however, Wifes, Partners and Children are not! This is where the devastation, disruption, anxiety, trauma occurs.
These pilots now have moved to a new Base. In many cases away from family or via an extensive commute. Some will move one or two more times with redeployment, retraining and the RIN. Wives are quitting employment (and the income to help pay the new mortgages) due to moving interstate and intrastate. Children will need to leave their schools and maybe in some instances their university? You can see the scenario unfold time and time again and for family units, it can be devasting fiscally, psychologically and emotionally.
And this is only the start. This is only one of the many scenarios. The Rin is yet to happen!
Thus all these pilots want (and their families) is some degree of certainty. They are looking to the Company and being fed total BS (for Administrative and Fiscal reasons)! They are looking to their Association and hear nothing but Silence from the AIPA!
I think you are either not a QF Pilot Fatguy or you have a total failure of understanding of the Human Cost of such scenarios in the real world. The Pilots must deal with these matters and issues usually whilst undertaking (or about to undertake) a Training course, a Base move, a Loss of income, finding New Accommodation and Homes for their Families and New Schools and dealing with disheartened and dismayed, wives children and adolescents.
IMO not quite as simple as you paint in your post perhaps?
Originally Posted by Maggot
That's what I used to think.
It can be very disruptive.
We all have various financial commitments a 'bit of money' at the wrong time can force larges changes.
Maggot: Absolutely Nailed it Again!