VB management are seeking a meeting with the pilot reps to look at how they can manage the excess of 737 F/O's. The credit crisis is starting to hit lads. But there is plenty of work at PB and VAUS (oh maybe not, aircraft orders being delayed). Its going to get ugly very quickly, but management keep putting out emails to staff saying ignore the media, yet on the other hand we get emails from management saying we need your help to avoid redunancies.
The parcel is starting to unfold. They don't want to make people redundant yet I don't believe they can carry excess staff for too much longer (some F/Os are being rostered 4 months of reserve in a row), this will really put the wind up the shareholders now and set the media off into a further spin, this is how it all begins, this is what happened to AN, it starts off as little warnings here and there and everyone goes into denial for awhile, then the snowball effect begins and critical mass is reached in a very short period of time.
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V as a group is wasting so much cash at the moment it must be hurting them. Vaus has been delayed and staff are being paid. Aircraft orders are being delay, both the 777 and EMB. They have too many pilots at
VB yet not enough at PB. They cannot crew the EMB because pilots don't want to shift bases to Perth and Sydney, they have pilots on 4 months of reserve yet calling them out on their RDO's for a call out payment. They have 18 empty red seats on most flights, which means on average, one in every ten aircraft is flying around empty (no wonder the load factors have reduced, its not just the credit crisis), Live to Air has been a flop, and remains a flop (system faults galore), the EMB dispatch rate has been questionable, ask any engineer!
I want this airline to make billions of dollars, it has such a great potential and such great staff working here, yet the $50M savings they want to make is staring at them in the face. Stop having birthday parties and xmas parties, stop giving EMT's 17% payrises, get rid of this Vitality crap etc etc etc.
This is all a real worry!
