Jetstar T & Cs - Just the Facts
Base Salary
Narrow Body
Junior FO $52,271 ($55,407.26 with retention bonus included)
FO initial 12 months $79,857 ($84,648.42 with retention bonus included)
FO after 12 months up to 5th year $87,117 ($92,344.02 with retention bonus included)
FO after 5th year $94,377 ($100,039.62 with retention bonus included)
Captain $145,195 ($153,906.70 with retention bonus included)
Wide Body
Junior FO $59,588 ($63,163.28 with retention bonus included)
FO initial 12 months $91,038 ($96,500.28 with retention bonus included)
FO after 12 months up to 5th year $99,314 ($105272.84 with retention bonus included)
FO after 5th year $107,589 ($114,044.34 with retention bonus included)
Captain $165,523 ($175,454.38 with retention bonus included)
A Junior FO is defined as a pilot who has insufficient experience to qualify for an ATPL.
A pilot undergoing command upgrade is paid at the appropriate FO rate until achieving Checked to Line status.
Superannuation
At the rates prescribed by the federal superannuation legislation.
Retention Scheme
Pilots successfully checked to line and employed by Jetstar on anniversary dates (1st, 3rd and 5th year anniversary of EBA 2008) receive a 6% retention payment. Superannuation contributions will be paid on the Retention amount. For convenience, the retention bonus has been annualised and included in the figures given above, but it is only paid as a lump sum at the 1st, 3rd and 5th year anniversary dates.
Company Performance Bonus
FOs with more than 3 years service, and all Captains, are eligible for a Company Performance Bonus on 1 April each year, which is dependent upon Jetstar Performance KPIs and the Qantas Performance Factor under the Qantas Executive Cash Plan. Superannuation contributions will be paid on the Bonus amount.
Overtime
Paid for each credit hour in excess of 75 hours in a roster period (30 or 31 days depending upon the month) at the rate of annual salary divided by 787. Overtime is included when calculating payments under the Retention scheme and the Company Performance Bonus, and superannuation contributions are paid on overtime payments.
Credit hours are 1:1 with flight hours; 3.6 hours for each Mon-Fri leave day, 0 for Sat-Sun leave days; 5.5 hours for sim duties, recurrent emergency procedures and security training; 3.6 hours for other ground duties; 50% of positioning travel.
Narrow Body Overtime per Hour
Junior FO $66.42 ($70.40 with retention bonus included)
FO initial 12 months $101.47 ($107.56 with retention bonus included)
FO after 12 months up to 5th year $110.70 ($117.34 with retention bonus included)
FO after 5th year $119.92 ($127.12 with retention bonus included)
Captain $184.49 ($195.56 with retention bonus included)
Wide Body Overtime per Hour
Junior FO $75.72 ($80.26 with retention bonus included)
FO initial 12 months $115.68 ($122.62 with retention bonus included)
FO after 12 months up to 5th year $126.19 ($133.76 with retention bonus included)
FO after 5th year $136.71 ($144.91 with retention bonus included)
Captain $210.32 ($222.94 with retention bonus included)
Working on Day Off
Working on a day off is paid at a rate equal to the overtime rate, with a minimum payment equivalent to 3.4 hours at the overtime rate; plus a further payment equivalent to 3.4 hours at the overtime rate. Another day off is not given.
Example: Working 1 hour on a day off results in a payment of 6.8 hours at the overtime rate.
Example: Working 10 hours on a day off results in a payment of 13.4 hours at the overtime rate.
Check and Training
Level 1 8.5%
Level 2 (Check A) 12%
Level 3 (Check B) 18%
Other secondary duties or Regional Base Captain 6%
Annual Increment
Annual salary increases 3% each year on 1 Jan up to and including 1 Jan 2012. For the last two years, this increment may be increased depending upon inflation. Should the underlying annual CPI as at Dec 2010 exceed 3% then the increment on 1 Jan 2011 will be the same as the CPI figure up to a maximum of 4%. A similar arrangement occurs for the increase on 1 Jan 2012.
Allowances
$117.65 (Group A)
$97.25 (Group B Capital and High Cost Cities)
$89.75 (Group B CNS and others)
Per 24 hours within Australia depending upon location. Overseas the amounts are varied by the cost of living index for the destination concerned. Groups A and B will be determined with reference to the ATO Taxation Determination each FY.
Training
Initial rating $36,000
Command upgrade of previously endorsed aircraft $15,000
Recurrency training of previously endorsed aircraft $10,000
Conversion and upgrade rights are limited to one upgrade to widebody and one command training opportunity, except that movement from a narrow body or A330 to the B787 will be subject to a training bond. Any other conversions or transfers at the request of the pilot will be charged to the pilot at the rates given above.
Transfers, at the company's or the pilot's request, from the A320 or the A330 to the B787, or from the A330 to the A320, or from a Captain position to a lower position, will all incur a training bond.
This means that in the event of a reduction in the A330 fleet, if a pilot wishes to bid to the narrow body fleet instead of the B787 this will be subject to a bond. If the pilot transfers to the B787 this will also be subject to a bond.
A training bond has a term no greater than 36 months. In the event of a resignation or termination the pilot may be required to pay the amount stated.
Direct Entry Commands
There are provisions to allow a direct entry Captain to remain as a Captain out of seniority for "normally not to exceed" 5 years.
There are provisions to allow Qantas pilots to enter on ghosted seniority numbers. These numbers are such that, at present, Qantas pilots would come in immediately, or within a few months, as Captains (usually on the A330).
Annual Leave, Monthly Days Off and Standby Days
Annual leave 6 weeks
Days off minimum 10 in each of six roster periods, and 11 in each of the remaining six roster periods. An additional 6 days off will be rostered each calender year allocated according to the business cycle. A roster period is either 30 or 31 days long depending upon the month.
Standby days are a maximum of 4 per roster period when rostered up to 75 credit hours; maximum 3 when rostered >75 and up to 90 credit hours; maximum 2 when rostered >90 and up to 100 credit hours; and 0 when rostered >100 credit hours.
Resignation Notice
2 months
Application of the Agreement
This Agreement operates to the exclusion of any Awards, industrial agreements, State Awards or State employment agreements, orders of industrial commissions, or State or Territory laws that might otherwise apply to the Employees' employment save that it does not exclude State or Territory laws dealing with: occupational health and safety; workers compensation; training arrangements; discrimination and/or equal opportunity employment.
'Protected award conditions' within the meaning of the Act, are excluded from the operation of this Agreement. Protected award conditions are provisions in any Award, which might otherwise apply to pilots' employment, that relate to the following matters: rest breaks, incentive based payments and bonuses, annual leave loadings, public holidays and days in substitution thereof, monetary allowances, overtime and shift loadings, penalty rates, and other matters prescribed by the Act.
Copies of the Agreement
Copies of the Agreement will likely be published on an Australian Government website once the Agreement comes into effect. If someone could let me know where, I'll include a link here - or you could Google it.
Disclaimer
This is necessarily an abridged version of a 44 page document. All amounts are factual, but some amounts may have been combined to assist legibility and brevity. For example, allowances in the EBA are divided into amounts for breakfast, lunch, dinner and overnight, whereas only the total has been quoted above.
Not in the Agreement but Answers to Some Other Questions
Important: These are not in the Agreement so may be subject to change. They are still factual, as far as I know.
You are expected to join with a valid aircraft rating (at the moment A320, sometimes A330). This is done at your own expense in your own time. Supposedly some have been able to join with no rating and pay it back to Jetstar over time, but I have no knowledge of this.
Narrow body basings are in SYD, MEL, AVV, NTL, SEQ (south-east QLD, expected to operate from both OOL and BNE), CNS, ADL, HBA, CHC (Christchurch). PER is supposed to start up soon as a narrow body basing - no details. Widebody basings are SYD and MEL.
Dear PPRuNers
Please only reply with factual errors to the above. I will edit this post in response to any factual errors to keep it up to date. For comments, discussions, requests, rebuttals and rumours, please start a new topic or continue an old one. That way this thread will stay as a constant information resource for all Oz pilots.
Note that I do not have the time to answer questions outside the scope of this Agreement. That includes questions on speculations about the B787, future basings, time to upgrade, etc. The Agreement will last 5 years so this thread is about that only.
An equivalent resource from a Virgin Blue, Virgin Oz, Tiger or Qantas pilot would be warmly welcomed by all, I am sure.
BeerBaron
Last edited by BeerBaron; 9th Mar 2008 at 09:56.
Reason: Edited Training to clarify bonding. Added Direct Entry Commands, Applicability and Not in the Agreement sections.