Originally Posted by
SOPS
A spokesmen for Qantas confirmed last night that the average Qantas pilot earns $392,000 a year and flies on average 36 hours a month. He also stated that the average layover time in Singapore is 7 days..and many of the pilots undertake luxury diving tours...............blah blah blah
Once again there's a major problem. Media reporters aren't rocket scientists and journalistic ethics (if there ever was such a thing) in Australia has pretty much followed a graceful nose-dive into a bottomless peat bog like journalism in the UK. Any story will do, as long as it sounds good to the masses. Cross checking facts is an unnecessary encumberance for most journos. Tall-poppy syndrome is alive and well, and they love nothing more than slagging off at doctors who've done more study and training than most people would even dream about, or pilots who've taken 15 years of slogging away to get where they are - both of whom can end a life/many lives within a few seconds of making a wrong decision.
However talk of work-to-rule is rather premature, and it'd be illegal now anyway (in fact, I'm surprised even
disliking the Government's IR policies hasn't been made illegal yet). What you'll find initially is that cooperation and goodwill towards the company, ie, bending over backwards to make things work, extending duty-periods, accepting voluntary scheduling requests, being frugal with additional fuel, and so on, will virtually cease. There is evidence that this is already happening.
Edit: Que? Speedy hasn't even made a post on this thread!