Originally Posted by
FightDeck
“I am sure the pilots do not want to give up any more conditions that have been fought for over the years to advance someone else's career.”
Exactly right.
The previous President or rather his EA team that he presided over traded away many protections. The joke is the 787s were ordered long before an EA.
Qantas chose the 787 to replace the 747 and only announced it as a replacement type after the EA being shoukd be telling.
There is no proof that the aircraft were not going to arrive regardless of an EA. It suits Qantas position to say that it was purely cause of a pilot EA because they won a lot of consessions by that strategy.
But the IR narrative and negotiating stategy was that to get pilot conditions lessened, we will threaten the already ordered aircraft arriving unless you sign this agreement in its first version.
Not soon after that NS went to work for the company. Interesting timing.
What NS said as president doesn’t sound any different to what he’s now saying as a company negotiator.
Difference this time is that Qantas are paying his bonus and he enjoys first class travel.
Nice deal but Same scare strategy.
While the 787s were ordered originally by Dixon (as were the A380s) they were then deferred. So they were absolutely not guaranteed to arrive anyway. How do I know? Because this is exactly what has just happened with the A380s - ordered and then deferred and then finally cancelled because the investment case for more no longer stacked up.