Originally Posted by
framer
I agree GFR.
Are the market forces comparable to those at play in the USA? If they are then our bargaining power/ techniques/ systems are what we need to look closely at.
Depends on how you measure it. The US has a much larger industry but if we park an airframe for a week in Australia it would cost pretty much the same (revenue wise) as it would in the US. Possibly even more as their economy of scale would lessen the over all
impact to the airline. The question for Australian airlines is can they afford to
not pay pilots those sorts of figures?
I completely agree with your last sentence. We need to back ourselves and empower our unions to stand firm, now more than ever.