Originally Posted by
normanton
ConfigFull is just spreading fearmongering lies to try and convince people not to take LWOP.
You are doing the exact same thing while trying to convince people to do the opposite.
I can see why Qantas would want to trick the pilots into forgoing tens of thousands of dollars in leave entitlements but I struggle to see why a pilot colleague would be the loudest cheerleader of such action.
Telfer’s repeated doom and gloom rants are not based on reality. Almost no serious forecast has zero international flying for 2 more years.
The reality is, you can’t just sack all your pilots and then bring them back when demand picks up. When Qantas got a whopping 6 new 787’s it completely overwhelmed the training system for over 2 years. If you sacked 1000 pilots it would take a decade to get up to speed again when demand returned and Qantas would be left in the dust.
So they have to keep pilots on the books for the inevitable ramp up. They just want to pay as little as possible for them in the interim, hence the ploy that is working so convincingly on normanton.