Originally Posted by
KRviator
So what makes aircrew so special in that regard? There are, literally, dozens of my colleagues in that exact same boat. And that's just the rail guys, not even counting the plant or production operators. They live on the East coast, NZ or elsewhere but work in the Pilbara, and up until Mark McGoose opened the border sans quarantine to "low risk" states, they had to quarantine for 2 weeks every time they went to work, or, spend their off-duty time on-site in a donga, or in a hotel in Perth, held captive by the state
pilots are not special per se. The difference is that your FIFO guys at least leave quarantine after 14 days and can live and work normally in that state. No they can’t go home without having to come back and repeat but if they don’t at least they can live in WA as a free person. No it’s not great but a very different beast to being continuously in hotel quarantine as you move from country to country and never being able to leave which is basically what was being proposed
My argument wasn’t about foreign crews anyway. More about Aussie crews flying internationally and returning.