American eagle arent flying 3 class 330s either.
Funny how that arguement only works 1 way. Why arent we using that same arguement for our freighter fleets? What does UPS and Fedex pay?
They guys are leaving for many reasons. The truth is 12% payrise would not have stopped
any of them leaving. This is not a money fix. The only ones stupid enough to believe that are across the road. The only thing the money will fix is that the new hires might start turning up.
People are leaving for many other reasons. Some (senior FOs) because there is no future growth planned for KA. Tony and Nicks letter made that very clear. We may pick up another mainland destination or 2, but who would stay for that? We are under no illusions though, no one joined KA for the exotic destinations. There is no fleet progression, the disasterous HKRO saw to that. What must that have cost them??? Whats the bet most of them would have stayed if they could progress on to the 400 if they could stay on the agreed HKG package? You would have been killed in the rush to get on it. Also they left for lifestyle issues like no rostering stability, even when there were no aircraft on order they couldnt get the crewing numbers right. Does anyone still think there will be 20 commands next year? That might cover the guys going to CCA.
In short, Kenny had to clean the place out, the managers at all levels had been caught lying to him so many times. "Sure Kenny, we can crew the new destinations." "Sure Kenny, the freighter will be crewed and ready for the christmas increased schedule." "Dont worry Kenny, CC only affects a few trouble makers. We have it all under control". "Dont worry Kenny, its only a hollow threat, none of them will leave." "I was misquoted, I never told them if they dont like it to leave." and from leave dept, "We have a new leave allocation system we found at download.com that will improve the leave management, the crew will love it!" "No Kenny, its normal for half the fleet to be terminating before 8pm. Nothing to do with lack of crew, there may be a few troublemakers on sick leave, but they will be dealt with. Our passengers just dont like to fly at night."
Who can the poor bloke trust? Selling softdrinks would never have been this much fun!
