Originally Posted by
Cdash
I’ve heard whispers the Royal Flying Doctors are in talks with QF about possibly taking a few (same deal as woolies & Telstra) as they are looking at a busy winter.
I highly doubt it. Given the time and cost to train up a new pilot, and the fact that there’s probably plenty of pilots without jobs now who would like permanent jobs, I would be very surprised if they would be thinking about taking on such temporary pilots.
An aircraft can still only fly so many hours in a day, and if they already have correct numbers then they would be able to fly those maximum hours in a day without the need to bother with temporary pilots.