Could someone from shorthaul give us an update of how your EBA negotiations are going - and what the general crew reaction is to it.
I understood there were to be no changes to the regional flying agreement in the new EBA but am now hearing that there is an unpublicised clause in there, allowing the company to pre-allocate 3 language speakers to each regional pattern.
If this is true - it sounds like a bit of a dangerous path to be heading down since the majority of 'language speakers' are recently recruited MAM casuals.
In effect - 30% of regional flying will be outside of the bidding system - unavailable to permanent crew.
I also hear that the carrot being dangled is more regional flying being transferred from longhaul to shorthaul if this is approved and the current problem of having no language speakers on regional flights is solved...
Would be interested to hear if this is just rumour - or fact!