Originally Posted by
Capt Basil Brush
If they are talking forced redundancies, I assume it would be via the seniority list. Have they said how redundancies would be done?
The EBA is a little murky around that one. They did have a large influx of Pilots arrive at the time the 737 arrived. So if its via Senority List, essentially you would be making a large chunk of the current 737 Team Redundant, and a large chunk of the The Airbus Team remain. However, you then have no 737 Pilots. But that is really not the issue for the longer serving Airbus folks, why is it their problem that 737 conversion was left to last in Sydney and Brisbane, and many were sent there to keep the Airbus side of the business going. But they then need to train the remaining 100 odd new Pilots, all of whom are new to type. I am sure no matter what, it will be an absolute shambles however they attempt it, as like with everything they do there.
53.10 To avoid doubt, a Pilot covered by this Agreement cannot be required to give up their position or base because of redundancies in the Virgin Australia Wide Body, Narrow Body, New Zealand based operations or Virgin Australia Regional operations or other Group Pilots integrated on the Virgin Australia Group Pilots’ List. A Pilot covered by this Agreement can only be made redundant if a position covered by this Agreement is made redundant.