Originally Posted by
dr dre
Do you have any supporting evidence for the claim that the wanted number of redundancies was higher? I doubt it. If management were so desperate for cash they would’ve not offered any VR at all and kept all those surplus pilots on stand down indefinitely.
As has been said previously the VR/ER numbers seemed to have taken care of the surplus of pilots in the Capt rank. So much so it’s probable that some FOs will be promoted to fill the gap when international flying returns. It’s the SOs who may be in a worrisome situation as there isn’t much of a need for new FOs for a long time.
I did hear this also. It was a webinar a while ago. Think it was Doug Alley saying the VR and ER would only address the surplus for the next financial year but there would be a surplus in the following years. But the numbers of VR and ER were the maximum Qantas could allocate but still didn’t address the surplus. The 250 of LWOP helps but he said still doesn’t address long term surplus.
Also heard it on an AIPA webinar from one of the executives that was a Captain. Can’t recall the name.