Facts not Opinion
Whatever opinion you may have of working for RBA, some facts are undeniable.
1. The 767 fleet has lost most of its experienced Captains.
2. Another local (training) captain has just resigned.
3. Another senior captain (disparagingly referred to in a previous post until the poster sobered up and realised how crass it made his post look) has his interview with another airline next week.
4. Yet another senior captain is just waiting for his start date before he submits his resignation.
5. Several other captains have just hit 3000 wide body command time so we know where they will be going shortly.
6. The so called "pay rise" is having no effect on retention of experience.
7. Management continue to abuse their positions and not give a damn unless/until it affects their guaranteed month off with their children in Jul/Aug, their christmas/new year holidays or their SYD/AKL/BNE slip patterns.
8. There are lots of DEC 767 positions available and other established carriers are offering experienced RBA Captains a DEC on other types - 744 and 777 to name but 2.
9. Experience levels are so low in the LHS of the 767 that the trainers are now talking of when not if an incident/accident occurs.
10. RBA is recruiting lots of low houred FOs with zero jet time to fly with inexperienced captains. Good for them and not a bad thing if a balance of experience is being maintained. But it isn't.
These are just the Flight Ops problems. Engineering are no better off.
The Board of Directors really should be extremely concerned. I wonder if they even understand the seriousness of the problem and its real root causes?
Last edited by THINALBERT; 8th Oct 2005 at 11:19.