One of the biggest hurdles for someone going for the jacket is the base transfer list.If there are 30 vacancies then the transfers from melbourne will take the bulk of the spots in Sydney.
If you are Sydney based crew and you have ties to Sydney like children,wife/husband, mortgage or whatever and you have not got the time or money to move to melbourne then you are fighting against the tide.
Lobey is right with the company wanting bfa crew to go for the jacket as well.The company has already got their favourites in bfa and now they have the chance to let them run the show.
If you want to be a csm then you should have had to do time down the back.This way at least you have a better go at getting someone who knows what they are doing.There are a lot of treasures up there in j/c
pr p/c who's only experience in y/c is when they go to the crew rest.
This is just another chance for the office clowns to get their mates in the jacket.
You guys are right about the tamil tiger and I was very happy when she got shown the door.They reckon you could hear her from the domestic terminals when she was escorted out the door.