What a load of
PR Bull#*%t
Media Release " Rex has done all it could and we call on the Government" also quotes They have a very healthy financial position...
so then I don't know maybe >>> PAY MORE = KEEP MORE.. not rocket science
but that is not good for the annual Bonus review is it
... However the minning industry is not paying unskilled labourers well over 100 grand due to the goodness of their hearts... its due to the Operation needs then to keep turning = keep feeding the profits thru = shareholders happy
All these Virgin / Jetstar / Rex / others ..Management types :
Read the other posts here and over the last year or more
We overseas based aussies with more time than you can poke a stick at (realative to recruitment) and not yet grey... are sick of reading about the pilot shortage when our applications go unanswered...
So why is this so...
Don't recruit pilots who are used to being paid what they are worth ?....
Don't recruit pilots with more experience than the Management Pilots .....as may pose a threat to their cosy position down the track.
Yes there are those ( minority) who may come in and tell them how to run a real airline ... but that is possible with any recruit given the ego's of many in this industry and just maybe that in itself (ego) helps explain the recruitment thinking of these Recruitment Managers.
" Stuff them all, They chose to leave Aus and go fly that Heavy O/S.. now after making some bucks they want to come home, they can Go Get Fu%#@d " -
We will cancel services rather than meet crewing demands with available Pilot applicants>>>>
Genius
The Aussie mind at work / one hopes this is not the case !
Pilot Shortage ?? Aussies based outside Of home wanting to come home
in their 30s's many with widebody left/Right seat time or
Bizjet or ...the list just goes on.
....Yeah I know .." Flogging a dead horse "