Those pay rates that Telfer is talking about also presume that the A350 is enterIng service and we’re training people onto it. If that’s the case then there are likely to be lots of training/ promotion available on every other type in mainline. The re-hired S/Os aren’t going to have to worry about being on that lower pay rate for very long if that’s the case as they’ll have the ability to bid off it fairly quickly.
The official line on the webinar today was that Qantas “don’t know” what pay rate CR’d crew would be re-hired on as they’re not looking at any CRs at all in the short to medium term.
Further, Qantas are after EA variations to decrease the cost base as the fleets stand back up again. Therefore it could be relatively easy to ensure that any variation put to the vote confirms explicitly that CR’d S/Os return on their current rate when they are subsequently re-employed.So any commentary by Telfer about what rate crew would be re-employed on is quite premature unless Qantas makes crew CR within the next month or so- something they have said they will not be doing.