Originally Posted by
das Uber Soldat
I didn't see these Qantas pilots complaining when after the failure of Ansett the Qantas fleet increased by nearly a third in just 5 years?
You're a fool if you assume you're entitled to a thing in aviation.
well said!
Maybe one day Qantas Group pilots will adopt a promotional system which doesn’t imprison experience in one case, whilst protecting inexperience in another. Maybe in adopting such a system, pilots will enjoy the fruits of promotion based on the same criteria enjoyed by every other industry.
and one day pigs will fly.......
when Ansett collapsed, rather than leveraging the vast experience available to it, Qantas was forced by its pilots promotional system to conduct unnecessary training and promote inexperience, both at enormous cost and arguably increasing operational risk.
Qantas pilots have the system they want. Their extreme conservatism will inhibit anything else, and ironically I fear, their very futures.