“These are growth aircraft, not replacement for older ones, so that means a significant increase in pilot numbers,” Mr La Spina said.
Our estimate is around 400 more. That translates into more command positions, more promotions and ultimately more pay increases.
If Qantas wants to run these ULR flights as mooted with four crew where do we get the growth of 400 Pilots from?
If we cut back;
SYD-LAX-JFK as we will be operating direct from SYD, we cut back the Crew Numbers (No crews in LAX) required for that operation. And for SYD-SIN-LON as we will be operating direct from SYD – (No crews through Singapore) so that would be a decline in crew numbers.
O.K. it is not clear, and I may be missing the maths here, however, I certainly would want to see the spreadsheet and crewing equations and how this translates to growth. I feel there is a lot of “spin” here!