I suspect the sound of distant hoof beats will be heard before this mob think to close the gate!
Qantas pays significantly more. Emirates now pays more. BA and Virgin have had big payrises. Virgin blue is looking at paying their FOs around $150-160K to fly the 777 next year - we pay $120K for the Airbus. Even the LCCs pay more than we do now.
Pilots in the US majors are now in the process of negotiating back their huge pay cuts.
No wonder management want a deal. Maybe 1%/1%/1%. At least now we get some profit share...with the extra $6,000 I will be able to retire at least 14mins early!
I guess management rely on two things: pilot inertia and 'not my problem'. We whinge but we don't leave. And by the time we leave the managers will have their nice little promotion into swire bottling or something.
I am telling all would be applicants to take Qantas, Emirates or basically anyone else but CX. Time to command will blowout once age 60 or 65 comes in - and thats assuming you get past the star chamber. I haven't heard of any other airline that allows you to have 2 goes at the last check and then the star chamber fails you because of some non aviation related reason. But then I don't know how North Korean "Kim Jong Il" airlines does things so maybe there is more than one airline like us!