Excellent summary Aimpoint.
A little further on the duty hours issue:
Classic guys and gals don’t like it. I haven’t seen any of those spreadsheets but I have seen a lot of FOs particularly banding together on this and putting their own ideas forward.
In Sydney the classic fleet does bugger all overnights compared to the 400, and almost exclusively 9hr min rest. The feeling is that the overnight bump is not as equitable an idea as a straight increase, and rewards a fleet that’s already paid more.
In Melbourne there are more hotel trips, and a whole lot more drivers that miss the six blade days. A bit of attraction and retention focus there and in Adelaide wouldn’t go astray either. No one would need a fleet freeze if there wasn’t two pay scales for the same job.
I don’t know what the best answer is this time around, and personally that’s my irritation: none of these ideas have been sold to the group, just slapped on an email that says we’ve agreed.
I don’t think half of them were on the survey, whenever that was.