There are so many retirements in the next 5-10 years as the big wave of 80s joiners retires. Google global pilot shortage.
The 400 mentioned are Due to retirements anyway and include residuals.
Qantas said the 787 was all for growth. The chief pilot now says it’s a 747 replacement. So we have all these promotions now because of a replacement type? You can’t keep lying to pilots for decades and expect to get the same result. Dixon promised pilots every FO would soon have a command in 2004.
And one day Alan woke up and decided to ground an airline. Must have forgotten he sent lock out letters days earlier. Constant lies.
The difference this time is few people want to do back to back trips of 23 hour night flying to London on Sunrise. Many Long Haul pilots have died recently of heart attacks and cancer. People are realising that the scientific data showing jet lag and night flying is very poor for your long term health is a reality. The flying that sunrise does is the extreme of what’s bad for you.
Its only going to be for 10-12 hulls to replace the A380 anyway. Exactly the same as the 787 replacing the 747 as Chief pilot says.
Unless the contract pays well and acknowledges the hazardous nature of the repeated work it will not be accepted.
We are being lied to again and the science needs to be proved correctly. At the moment its nothing more than a Joyce
PR show. Aggressive letters insulting pilots from Tino just to add to the circus.