Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
This has been Qantas’s method of negotiation for a decade. Agree on terms and then we will order the aircraft. It is not to say they won’t order the aircraft without the pilots agreement, but the threat is that another group of pilots will fly them.
Seems intuitive. Why put in place a ‘deadline’ for negotiations by setting a date the first aircraft arrives? Keeps the pilot bargaining position weak.