lowerlobe, GD will grow J* international regardless of F/A's are being cheaper or not. QF will also continue to drive down costs regardless if we have a b scale or not. my feeling is that the next promotions come out of akl. if you want job promotion transfer to akl under jetconnect conditions. as i said in my previous posts their cost structure is too good not to continue. or would you like to see AWA's in OZ LH with most conditions out of the pictureand on half pay?
the other major issue here is pilots salaries as well as the general cost structure between QF and J*(domestic and int.). interesting to watch the current ongoing domestic pilots EBA and the proposals on the table.
even with the office redundancies there is a lot of "fat" left to be trimmed out of QF. just look in our department. how many GGM/GM/BM/CCM/CCTM are there? 10 years ago we had one GM and a few other managers.lets not forget their salaries/bonuses are tied to cost structure.
