Pettycoat it is bad at Air Pac. Look at it this way the pilots are paid peanuts compared to world standards, but your air fares are expensive. The cost of living is high in Fiji, cars, fuel, and food are expensive. You pay for schooling and medical care and both are sub standard. The life style is lousy, you realise this once you leave. Campbell says he can't pay pilots anymore but he pays his Qantas boys twice as much. The rostering is crap even for the 747 boys, they only think its good because they have nothing to compare it with.
The contract pilots are also not well paid. If you add the days they work in a year they are on less than the locals. Remember they get no pension, holidays, medical insurace, loss of licence insurance etc. The only pilots that will work for that money are the ex Ansett boys who cant work overseas because mummy and the kids dont want to leave Aus. As long as Campbell can get these desparados to work for nothing the locals will not get a pay rise.
So come on guys and girls you are worth a lot more and you owe it to your families to provide them with a better life style. Times are good and there are a lot of jobs out there so make the most of it. Unless you enjoy being an Air Pacific slave. Dont wait for Air Pac to go bankrupt as the jobs might not be there.
