Originally Posted by
havick
That still doesn’t answer ScepticalOptomist’s question, as he points out Alliance is in no way part of the QF group, they owe no special treatment to QF pilots than any other applicant.
Perhaps when a client comes along and says, “we’d like to contract millions of dollars worth of flying on a multi-year contract covering about a dozen new aircraft but we have a few conditions”, Alliance decides to hear them out.
- We want the aircraft to say QantasLink on the side.
- We want the flight attendants to wear Qantas uniforms
- We want them to have a business class
- We want x, y, z, etc.
- We need you to employ some of our crew as we have hundreds stood down and you will be short.
As you say, Alliance can tell Qantas to shove it as they owe Qantas pilots nothing. But is a multi-million dollar contract worth putting at risk?
The old adage says, ‘The customer is always right’ and in this circumstance the customer is Qantas.