Originally Posted by
unobtanium
for a group that hate's 457's its ironic they call themselve's expat's while basically doing the same thing to locals in other country's.
ever seen an asian/middle eastern/indian expat in australia? of course not, they are from 3rd world countrie's and therefore should be labled immigrant's/scabs, even though many of them hold proper professional jobs.
Worthy of a separate thread if you are so troubled? Expats of my generation left Australia as the boys and girls here, started paying for their endorsements. Often as an expat, I didn’t even get a FO in the RHS of a wide body. They were called Second Officers
and had under 200 hours. Many were very sharp, it still took five plus years and excessive training resources to get them to command standard.
457 visas in Australia at the moment for pilots would be wrong. We have a skills shortage with where the economy needs to go, but not for pilots.
Now back on topic. Alliance has a pilot retention issue despite the most significant labour correction in aviation since WW2. It would be interesting to know why?