!!!!su_Tonka,
you make some valid comments and thanks for your input.
At the end of the day I wonder whether anyone would care about how QF treats it's staff ???
Sinali,
I'll give you a little example of our crew rest arrangements and how management treat us.
As has been mentioned our award entitles us to horizontal crew rest for flight duties that extend beyond 13 hours and 55 minutes.
We still operate a 300 series 747 which doesn't have bunks above the rear economy toilets.
During the late 80's our engineering department developed an underfloor "containerised" crew rest facility which is in effect two cargo containers bolted together.
We access it from the doors 2 galley through a hatch in the floor and although some find it claustrophobic, I love it.
Anyway, when it is loaded ex SYD for our 13.55+ sectors it is a god send, but here is the rub.
If the return leg, due to favourable winds etc is planned UNDER 13.55 it is company practise to turn it around in the hold so we can't access it.
It's in the hold and costs NOTHING to use but the lowlife that run this company deny us it's use out of nothing more than spite.
