Originally Posted by
das Uber Soldat
Its likely to get ugly.
Fact is JQ flies the largest NB aircraft in Aus, with the most seats, the longest distances, have the least days off and likely do the most sectors of any 180 seat+ airline in Australia. The pay needs to start reflecting that. Great work to Tiger, congrats to them. I hope JQ uses this as a springboard to push for real changes, because anything that even breaks even with Tiger will be an insult in my eyes, no disrespect to the fine crew of Tiger. Simply a reflection of the realities of different operation with different capabilities.
No doubt there will be threats by management to close the place down. Will there be unity? I sure hope so. Tiger proved that unity can deliver real dividends.
Realistically Jetstar needs to sit about 7-9% above the Tiger deal when taking all the factors into account. That would be a 25% odd increase in wages.
To get that over the line would probably result in the biggest IR movement ever seen.
But can be done!