Howard,
You might be interested to know that
ALL Qantaslink captains (that have applied in the last 12 months) have
failed the S&P and NOT gone any further with their applications. Checkies, trainers and line captains.
However,
MOST FO's have
passed the S&P and moved onto the simulator ride. They are doing well on takeup with Jetstar with most getting through.
Now if I was a conspiracy theorist I would suspect that there is some collusioion here between Qantaslink and Jetstar management. I reckon someone has had a word in Jetstars ear something like "we can't afford to lose our experience, please don't take our captains
. Cover your arses to make it look like your not discriminating against
all group pilots though. Take a few FO's because we can make their replacements pay for their training and it won't cost us that much."
Maybe it's a coincidence and all their captains are just dumbarses.
Nope. I'll stick with the 2nd last paragraph.
After all they tried it with Cathay and Dragonair when they found out most of their pilots had applied. Scumbags.