The latest email from AIPA suggests that if it moves to CR, it’ll be a long drawn out and expensive process.
The interesting part that will cause AIPA to lose its case is it refers to the LHEA for CR. The LHEA does not cover SHEA pilots. So provisions from the LHEA cannot be used to displace SH. Along with the FWA. Qantas would have done their homework and they don’t usually lose these types of disputes.
If it went down that path and AIPA became hell bent on putting a gun to Shorthaul so that longhaul has somewhere to go, there would be a lot of SH pilots looking for alternative representation.
It’s a mess and I don’t think any Qantas pilot has the stomach for it. Well maybe a few in the ’room’ that seem to want to watch it burn.