Originally Posted by
Angle of Attack
No problem swap your 12 months VR with a 14 month Flight attendant payout. It’s not about weeks or months, it’s about the payout, and it’s entirely up to the Company what they offer, anyone saying anything else is full of it. Take it or leave it, it’s pretty bloody simple.
In 2014 the Union thought the Company’s offer was far less than what was needed to entice enough pilots to take it. They were wrong. And that was when there was an option to keep flying and earning a wage for those targeted for VR. Now there’s stand downs:
polling had found Qantas needed to offer a base salary figure of closer to 24 months - with 18 months as a minimum - to address its concerns of having surplus pilots.
Pilots not happy with Qantas redundancy offer