Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
Well, the biggest problem with achieving big EBA gains is still that there is NO shortage of pilots wanting to join Qantas. Things are different in the rest of the world as they are in competitive recruitment markets and are literally in a bidding war to attract pilots. Who is the competitor that Qantas is having to ‘outbid’. Same issue with Air NZ Mainline, who is the competitor, the only restriction on Air NZ recruitment is their self imposed recruit from Group deal. I was speaking to a subsidiary company manager recently and said that he should be concerned with the amount of FO’s looking to leave, his reply was ‘not at all we will simply recruit more’.
there is however a huge shortage of pilots wanting to fly the 737. One just has to look at how junior east coast commands went, and how many FO vacancies were left unfilled. 30 in SYD alone. It wasn’t that long ago it took 7 years before you could get a SYD 737 FO slot. Given the flow on effect to the 321 and how these positions will be filled ( SYD is first) I’d say it’s something that will need to be addressed.