I for one don't mind sharing the trips around more equitably so that those at the bottom have more in the way of choice.
My concerns are that these kind of arrangements [packaged and gift-wrapped] will be nothing more than a smokescreen used to blind-side the naive whilst other hard one conditions are stripped to the bone.
3 day LAX trips, i.e. 24 hour slip?
You have to be kidding.
So desperate are management [cough] to recruit and maintain numbers in AKL that NZ's equivalent of the CES is now used to recruit. [dont even start me on the standard
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I don't think Longhaulers are stupid enough to vote yes to anything that destroys our careers.
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Interesting thread about the success of one of managements [cough] alternative workforces..........
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=724164