Originally Posted by
aussieflyboy
For the last 9 weeks NJS pilots have been told exactly this.
”If you don’t meet our ‘SI (embarrassing name for company requirements)’ NJS will not get the A220 and you will be made redundant when the B717 is retired”
Fortunately what I’m hearing is most NJS pilots are not ‘Qantas Angels’ having been rejected by QF many years ago (and hired by NJS/Cobham) and will not bend the knee. ‘Negotiations’ have stalled…
You’d have to be quite dull not to realise there is simply no spare pilots available for QF to start new A220 and A321 companies and their only solution is to have NJS and SH operate the ‘yet to be ordered or confirmed’ new aircraft.
What an absolute crock (not you aussieflyboy, the sentiment). No worries just shut the NJS AOC down that you only recently purchased. Give the flying to a competitor.
I can understand why we, as employees with a typically massively over inflated sense of self importance, could be lead down the garden path into thinking we're the reason for an aircraft order happening or not.. Getting the aircraft either stacks up or it doesn't, the pilot cost is little more than a footnote in the business case. Same applies for shorthaul mainline.