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"Two companies in the USA, West Marine and Circuit City dliberately fired their most experienced sales and service staff and replaced them with cheaper, and far less expereinced people. Both are now only just staving off bankruptcy."
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Get this for brilliance!!
The A380, Qantas's brand new flagship carrier shortly due for launch is going to be crewed by the cheapest and most inexperienced F/As Qantas have.
A subsidiary company was set up for this aircraft type called Qantas Cabin Crew Australia.
F/As for this company receive substantially less pay [25%] and work substantially more hours per roster period [20%]
Qantas refused to have it's existing cabin crew operate this aircraft type as we were deemed to be too costly.
A proportion of positions [20%] were set aside for us but only on a temporary basis [2 years] the other 80% will be the new hires.
Existing Qantas crew who will make up the 20% will receive a top up payment so they won't suffer substantial financial loss but with only two or three destinations to fly to the rush to take up these positions hasn't been great
The roll out of this aircraft from a service perspective is guaranteed to be a cluster f@#k of gigantic proportions due to the complexity of the service, the number of J/C passengers and the wifi devices crew will be using to place food and drink orders.
Conversations I've had with Singapore airlines F/As confirm that they don't get near their prestigious International flying until they gain experience flying regionally around Asia.
They [Singapore Airlines] are presently experiencing major problems running their 70 odd seat business class cabin due to a lack of galley space, poor equipment and sheer logistical challenges.
With a disturbing [for SQ] number of complaints being received from their high yield business class passengers
The irony being that you can bet your left testicle that SQ are NOT stupid enough to put brand new cut price 21 year old [life experience poor] F/As on their flag ship carrier.
The brilliance surrounding the upcoming Qantas train wreck is that it'll be all so public.
Qantas management. You are
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