Originally Posted by
Ladloy
The short-sightedness of the company bit them too. Rumour has it, a dozen engineers in Adelaide walked across the tarmac to Alliance within a few weeks of the stranded school kids debacle. It's a heavy maintenance base too. Ops were try to rush C checks to save their beloved cancellation rate and the engineers had had enough. Now management are throwing large wads of cash for retention bonuses to engineers.
Another rumour is that the pile of pilot resumes has dried up as everyone leapfrogs the company.
From the antics I hear on the radio all operators are struggling for good crew. It's a mess out there, especially into CTAFs. These days I can make more sense out of the non English speaking students better than some RPT radio calls, and the students ETAs are definitely more reliable.