Originally Posted by
Fonz121
Take the combined wages of a four-person crew from any other airline in the world and compare it to that of Qantas’. You’ll find that it is probably quite a lot less at QF.
You’re right. Delta, American and United all use Captains and FO’s on four pilot crew. Delta use two of each on a heavy crew. Their combined pay rate would make Joyce’s head pop off.
Originally Posted by
Fonz121
The SOs aren’t paid enough considering they are required to know how to do the exact same job as the Skipper if the need ever presented itself.
I agree they aren’t paid enough, but a ‘cruise relief type rating’ ? What’s next ? Maybe they’ll invent some sort of dodgy scheme to allow time in the right seat to be counted as command time ? They could call it ICUS and have CASA approve it.
Originally Posted by
Fonz121
Don’t fall into the trap of diminishing your colleagues worth simply because QF created a new rank to give the illusion that those pilots are worth less just to save a buck.
Too late. Somebody voted in a B scale for their ‘colleagues’, in a tremulous effort to prevent the outsourcing of long haul flying. Ironic (in a hideous way), considering the subject of this thread.