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11th Jan 2009, 08:46

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Sweet...

I actually attended a little event in Sydney last year and I observed a “feeling no pain” CEO Tony Davis being asked two questions by a Tiger pilot wannabee…

Q. Do you have enough pilots?

A. The “Business Model” dictates that we run two Capts and two FOs short and we don’t pay our pilots anything extra for working on days off to cover the short fall. We do not give them any pay rises and it saves us around 2 million a year across the entire company! Anyway if I want another pilot I shake a tree and a Monkey falls out.

Q. Are you sure that not serving the other two major “cash cows” in Australia (SYD/BNE) is wise?

A. I know what I am doing…

The CEO didn’t shake the tree and the conversation ended.

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