Originally Posted by
patty50
There are immense productivity gains to be made. Even when they eventually get back to full schedule the 2500 jobs will be replaced by 1800.
Swissport will do 737s with 4 rather than 5 man teams. You won’t have guys doing 3 35 minute turnarounds in 8 hours like you do now. Or 2 guys loading a nearly empty morning flight while 3 have a sleep. No more rocking up hungover at 5 and the boys letting you sleep until 7.
There are plenty of legacy conditions that will be done away with, the TWU EBA has allowances for everything. All breaks are currently paid, that will be gone. The penalty rate structure is completely different. Overtime goes on a weekly basis rather than after an 8 hour shift.
QAL managers currently each have about 25 people underneath them. There are additional supervisors and there are workforce planing. All will go and be replaced by a handful of supervisors.
The GSE mechanics will mostly go. All the bus drivers and bus mechanics.
Very easy to see how they will get their $100m in savings.
Would love to know where you get your facts from,early morning flights were basically always full,check the schedules & you will see there was a flight to syd every 15mins,airlines dont run at that frequency if no pax on board.
Coming in hungover at 5am,are you serious!!,the drug & alcohol policy is so strict it makes your claim an insult.
And 3 flights in 8 hours,makes me really wonder where you got this info from.
If they want to use 4 instead of 5 to load a 737,so be it,see how long it takes to load 120 bags & freight/mail also.
As for paid breaks,that is because they are shift workers!
It seems you think these guys get it easy,try doing their work on 38+c days & no,im not 1 of them.