Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
You contradict yourself from one sentence to the next. If there is "some agreement in place looking for a favour or to help their stood down crew out" then that is having a "say" in who they hire. No one suggests that Qantas have the final determination but they are having a say in who flies the aircraft on their routes, with their customers, in their livery.
I think you better look up the meaning of 'contradict yourself'. An agreement in place where QF has to pay for all the training and absorb all the costs is not having a say. Alliance has either offered or QF has suggested this might be a deal to benefit both sides but ultimately ALLIANCE and Alliance alone get the final say on who fly their aircraft, Im not sure why you are finding that so difficult.
The crewing of aircraft is an Alliance decision, NOT A QANTAS decision. QF simply offered Alliance the opportunity to fly under contract certain regional routes due to the 737 losing money on those routes. Alliance accepted the deal. Somewhere in that deal Alliance have offered to have QF staff fly e-jets but Qantas does not get to say only QF staff fly those routes because they are flying our customers in our livery.
That is simply FALSE. Alliance will schedule whatever qualified e-jet pilots they have on the books to fly any route they as a company fly. It may be a QF pilot and Alliance pilot together, 2 QF pilots or 2 Alliance pilots but Alliance scheduling and the company will have the final say on this. They simply will not allow Qantas to dictate to them how they schedule pilots to fly their own aircraft.