Originally Posted by
knobbycobby
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.
With the numbers who were let go it does indicate they have removed the crew required for all the 747s, about a third of the 380s and at least some of the 330s.
They may be planning on different flying for the fleets, I wonder if they see the 380 being limited to shorter Asian routes of less than 10hours (Japan, China, Singapore) instead of London/LAX if it does comeback which would negate the need for a lot of the SOs on the 380?
A likelihood is that those who took LWOP would just extend it, as they would only be coming back to being stood down anyway.