Originally Posted by
krismiler
I started a similar thread in Rumours and News about senior F/Os not wanting to upgrade to junior Captain.
No one wants to be a Captain.
Now it's spreading down the ranks, S/O on the Dugong doing 2 or 3 long haul trips a month with 1/3 of the time spent in the bunk, good layover destinations with 5* hotels vs bus driving around Australia doing 4 sector days and actually having to work in return for about the same money.
Something is wrong with either the people being employed or the T&Cs on offer, possibly both.
I heard EK are looking for experienced A320 Captains to go onto the A380 and upcoming A350 as F/Os with Command after about a year on type. Might interest a few JQ pilots.
In the US, this is standard practice. You bid according to QOL. Even 10 years ago you would have delta pilots with 20 plus years bidding FO cause it was almost the same money with high seniority.
This is one of the main reasons pilots at Qantas don’t bid for a “promotion”. The SH contract is horrible. Worse than the regionals in the USA. On top of that, the carrot to a window seat that Qantas based people going to the 737 is no longer. The pilots being recruited by Qantas have plenty of experience so there’s no incentive to take a cut in conditions just so you can take off and land.
The SH contract needs serious adjustments to change this imo.