Originally Posted by
YeahNup
That's just plain bullcrap. A steady stream of pilots is moving across to mainline from Network regularly. Why do you think people should join Rex or go to a GA company for even less money and worse conditions than the ones you reckon are so bad at Network?
You couldn’t be more wrong. There’s pilots that have waited over five years on the internal hold, and have watched hundreds of externals from GA and REX leap-frog them because the subsidiary won’t release anyone. That reluctance is likely to worsen as the pilot shortage kicks in and bottom paying operators like NJS and NAA have big crew shortages.
You can join NAA, get two year’s experience to become competitive, get on the hold and wait another five years - total seven years.
Or you can go to Rex, do two years on the SAAB, get on the external hold, and start a month later.
I 100% stand by my comment. If you want to get into mainline, joining a subsidiary is a really crap and slow way to go about it.
Oh and if you get on the internal hold while at NAA/Link/NJS and decide to resign to speed things up, your hold file spot gets binned and you have to start the entire process again with no guarantees. It’s a gamble most aren’t willing to take, and it allows the group to trap people into subsidiaries.
Of course, that whole equation changes (for pilots and for Qantas attracting and retaining pilots) if they pay subsidiaries better rather than treating them like third class citizens. Suddenly people might see value in joining a subsidiary.