“Because it saves double crewing”
The salary level of second officers does not save double crewing, the mere presence of them does, the salary is irrelevant.
“Acquiescing to such enormous workload increases without even hesitating is disingenuous at best.”
Interesting, has CASA removed flight time limitations down under? Surely the workload can only increase to the legal maximum, which is something you cant critisizing the company for expecting.
And are we not talking about going from 17 hour sectors in the 787 to 20 hour sectors in the 350, several times per month? Does that really constitute an “enormous” increase?
“At worst it’s going to kill the Australian GA industry as well.”
Do you think the investors in Qantas should really care about salary levels in their airline influencing GA?
Qantas pilots are on a fantastic wicket by world standards and the 350 offer continues the trend.