Originally Posted by
dr dre
Looks like it’s EBA time again....
Indeed.
Whether the A350-1000 will come to Qantas Mainline or are flown by Jetstar (Or yet another Qantas subsidiary) Pilots will depend on what may be the competitive new “Business Case’!.
It all sounds so obvious and simple yet if only that pesky legislation wouldn’t get in the way again. Qantas want pilots to have that fear. Reality though, QF can’t employ in one entity whilst making pilots in Mainline redundant. This means they would have to pull out of London and LA (A380 flights) because they’re not profitable (and prove it) and offer VR and/or retrench the juniors on the 787....and then at sometime later restart those routes with the A350 with the new lower cost entity.
So Jetstar, EFA, and whoever else can put in all the business cases they like to fly the A350. For Qantas, it’s far more complicated than that.