Originally Posted by
Climb150
As someone alluded to in a previous post, Qantas is giving Alliance tens of millions of dollars of work and they own just under 20%. If you have had business experience at all, you would know that this will give Q a very big say (if they want to) in who gets hired. They won't preside over every Interview but if Alliance say they will hire some Qantas folks and 3 months later they haven't hired any, or much fewer than they agreed to Qantas will want to know why.
Im sure they might ask why no QF has been hired. However there won’t be much they can do about it especially if no QF pilots want to move to Darwin or Adelaide.
The other 80 percent of the company have a bigger say on who gets hired and legally the contract will be about the flying, not pilot hiring. There is a simple reason for that, neither Alliance or QF can guarantee that at all times a certain percentage of QF pilots will occupy a certain percentage of e-jet seats or flights.
Hence it is an added bonus if some QF international pilots get hired, not a LEGAL REQUIREMENT as per the regional flying contract deal! as for the tens of millions of dollars in a deal being offered, they are free to take that deal and offer it to somebody else however we both no there really is nobody else that can do it so QF is in a bind and need Alliance more than Alliance need them.