Originally Posted by
Paragraph377
exfocx;
“The arguments that AN's pay scales far exceeded QF is nothing but bs”.
Maybe with the Pilots, but not in Cargo!!! Remember those boys wandering around in their white overalls back in the late 90’s, they were making $100k per year. Huge dollars for back then! Plus they still had 1 week per shift cycle where they started at midnight and finished at 0800 with 100% shift penalty. Most would ‘do the nick’ on at least one of those nights. They would sign on at midnight and then drive back home and sleep soundly for the night. Coordinated sickies in which mates would then cover on overtime, and so the list goes on! “It’s good to be the king”. Rampies on the domestic aircraft were earning around $75 to $80k in the late 90’s. And demarcation. If you were a pushback driver all you did was push back aircraft. Maybe 20 mins work 3 or 4 pushes in an 8 hour shift. The good old days. But not as good as flying widebody jets for ANZ between the 60’s and 90’s.
Totally irrelevant, what does the above have to do with the question of pay disparity or what other employees did? So what % of revenue did cargo make up back then and what impact would that have had on each company? Hardly enough to even call it "on the margins" and I'd also say AN carried the bulk on late night ops cargo.
Like for like between AN & QF, same same! Whatever industrial rorts available to one were available to the other, it was the same industrial system. If wages were responsible for sinking one, why not the other? It's a bs story.