Originally Posted by
aussieflyboy
You can whinge and carry on about Pilots joining and accepting the Network EA all you want but if they want to live in Perth what other options do they have?
Many don’t meet the puppy patting requirements of Coward street and the rest of the companies based in Perth are less secure jobs. Watch the Qantas 737 Pilots scrabble across to Network when they start downsizing the Perth Maggot base. Plenty of Jetstar and NJS Pilots both were on better conditions and both scrabbled across when faced with unemployment or East Coast relocation.
The best thing we can all do is throw our full support behind the NA Pilots.
Perth has been announced as one of the first two bases along with Sydney to get the XLR.
If what you are saying is true, plus what someone else posted about the cost of relocating everyone to the east coast not being a factor then why haven’t they done that to Adelaide?
They are down sizing the base by a third. No push out. Too costly.
Brisbane hasn’t had a 787 route since pre Covid. There’s still a base and currently no foreseeable route on the 787 out of Brisbane. Every pilot there gets paid 5.5 hrs minimum pay to pax across to another city to operate, and then 5.5 hrs to pax back. That’s 11 hours extra per pattern for multiple years. Even if it’s a one hour hop to Sydney and Back. Why not close the base and re open it once they do have Dreamliners based in Brisbane? Too costly.
Going back to Adelaide. You’d think many of those FOs there would be putting their hand up for secondment to NJS A220. They’re not. Even an a220 command is a pay cut. They won’t sell themselves short. They’ll either commute once they get another base in LH or move cities.