Originally Posted by
Jimothy
Do you really believe these guys will bet their personal and professional reputations on a bluff such as this?.
Do you think this has never happened at any other airline ? Look around the world. This has all happened before; The time pressure, the ‘last but final vote’ - British Airways, Delta, United and Southwest Airlines and many more.
The ones that caved recently were British Airways. They had their ‘Normantons’, cringing and whining - and their pay rates are an embarrassment, and they fly two crew to Chicago from LHR. Delta and Southwest voted down managements offer and produced decent contracts. EBAs that dwarf the Qantas contract, with 20% and 12% profit sharing in 2019. And you want to give up pay and conditions?
If Alan Joyce thought he would make more money by outsourcing ULH at Qantas, he would have already done it. He seems to understand the game. And you don’t.
Normanton et al. dont seem to understand the ultimate joke of this game - These are replacement aircraft. They'll still be stuck as a S.O. With stagnated promotion. Even after they’ve doomed themselves to a low pay contract, and responsible for the new B Scale (sound familiar Normanton ?) of new S.O.