Air NZ pilot redundancies

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Originally Posted by Flash Blackman

Interesting. So even though the lads at the top aren’t flying they potentially sit on pay? Do the regionals have the same downgrade facility to even the ranks? Are they essentially grounding the 777?

The Regional CEA says you can't take a pay cut for a drop in rank, so if they downtrain the Regional skippers they will essentially have to pay them their old command salary to sit in the right hand seat. Will they do this? Hard to say, it will make for expensive F/O's, however this could still reduce costs overall by having Junior F/O's made redundant off the bottom of the list.

Still no word on Regional numbers yet though.