SHUT UP!
boys, boys, boys.......we're in the box seat as far as future pilot shortages in the region go.
We(the AOA, or at least I thought they were supposed to be representing us!) don't even need to be talking to the company at the moment, we have a perfectly good contract(well, not quite, I admit!) that we can sit on until they come to us with something decent.
You bet your ass we'll end up worse off in some way through growth(get screwed again!) talks. Whether its a permanent bunch of conditions for extension, DEFO's or rostering, who knows.
Its just not in our interest to talk about anything right now.
Pressure on pilot numbers in the region over the next couple of years will create a supply and demand environment that will benefit all of us.
Our fun loving patriots over the border need something like 2000 pilots a year for the foreseeable future and can only train about 10% of that, Vietnam and Korean have just increased the expat contract pay and conditions on offer, very few new commercial pilots in Australia(only about 150 last year!!)
The best thing we can do right now is just SHUT UP!!!