Rumour has it that Bain are proposing the award wage on the 737. Fun times.
They just might find that they’ll get more VR requests than originally intended if it is true.
This would be correct if there were other jobs available in the usual places such as Asia and the Middle East, those highly paid China jobs would become worth going for too. At the moment there are so many pilots stood down that getting ANY flying job at all would be a miracle. Even when borders reopen, travel isn't forecast to return to 2019 levels until 2024.
If Bain simply post out contracts paying award wages, starting at the top of the list of people they want to keep on, they will probably have enough takers before they reach the bottom. Having to take the basic award for a few years in order to keep the B737 job and BNE base would be a price many would pay, given the lack of alternatives.