So after all the Panic the company document only has 9 747 Captains to be subject to a RIN. All are too junior to displace A380. The one redeployment position created from an early retirement will go to someone senior and un name one Captain.
As I see it they can either go Year 4 787 in MEL/BNE or displace onto A330 and be super senior. The rostering and rotating seniority system on the 787 is seeing Captains get a Blankline at least every 4-6 months as training pilots don’t fly blank lines. Not ideal. SH system good in theory but SH don’t do Blanklines.
With large retirements due and lots of training slots coming up Qantas DO NOT expect a further RIN for FOs or SOs.
Talk is also of keeping the final 4 747 ERs to do SCL,JNB,HND past the December 2020 plan as fuel is dropping in price.
Might have been Keg that mentioned Thankfully its not 2012 with record losses and demotions. Alan’s stopped begging the Government too. That be hard with close to $100 million in pay since then.
It’s 2018 and we have a pilot shortage, large retirements due, promotions not demotions, billion dollar profits, multi
million bonuses and Qantas has turned around.
Great times ahead