Originally Posted by
43Inches
No doubt, but that comment was in regard to the long haul pilots having work, not domestic A330 crew, who would still be doing east coast runs as well.
True, however the only reason the Perth LH crews are going to stay stood down until the year 2325AD is due to one reason, and one reason only. McGowan's border bollocks. Were he to see sense and do as other states have done, then they'd likely be getting recurrent if not now, then in the
very near future and flying again by Christmas.
Originally Posted by SOPS
If everything comes to a grinding halt because we can’t possibly survive without all you wise men from the east, we will sort it out when it happens. No need for you to worry.
Clearly not.
Rio Tinto lost $3.2B profit - not revenue -
profit due to the labour shortage in their iron ore operation. Work out the lost royalties on that, the lost payroll tax, the lost income tax from employee bonus payments, etc. BHP would be similar, and they have just advertised for Drivers for
their rail network
for the third time this year because they have introduced a
"Thou shall live in WA" clause to their selection criteria. And the fact BHP - who pay a bucketoad more $$ on a far better roster than most any other operator outside the Pilbara cannot get WA-based crew show that WA
can't do the job. If they could, Rio & BHP wouldn't be out billions of dollars and neither they, nor the
tourist operators would be crying about the labour shortage in the state.
But they are. Because WA
cannot manage things themselves, no matter how much you would like to think you can. If you could -
I wouldn't have had a job there for well over a decade!
Originally Posted by Clare Prop
Hear hear. It's very tedious reading all the bile and hatred.
No one's forcing you to read it.
But you know what
I've noticed
from reading it? It isn't really directed at Steve Marshall, or Peter Gutwein or Michael Gunner, nor has it ever been. It has been, almost without fail, directed at McGowan & Anna-Stayaway, because it has been
their border polices that have caused so much heartache. Even
now, McGowan is not following his
own border policies. NSW is still classified as "Extreme Risk" - defined as an average caseload of 500/day on a 14day rolling average. NSW has been under that for days - since the
19th October when we went from 508/day to 483/day on a 14-day rolling average.
The other interesting tidbit about that is the ACT remains
Medium Risk for the WA border bollocks and has been for yonks, IIRC. However, if you correct the ACT case numbers, for NSW's population (NSW having 18.9x the population of the ACT), you will find the
ACT has been above 500/day on a 14 day average since the 4th October. But they remain "Medium risk", even though they have a higher percentage of cases.
