Certainly coomacowboy is correct in part of his post, but the conditions and expectations when the vote to which he refers was carried out is now somewhat different and is being driven not by what types might be available but plain old job security. You can bet that there will not be any choice now and there will be one QantasLink list as a result.
The previous comments re MEL handling has been addressed by PimpDaddy. Obviously you need to talk to the Melbourne staff more to find out how that port works. Sure it has its share of problems, but they are obviously different to SYD – and you have to expect that.
I think that there are many things that both Eastern & Southern (and Sunstate) staff has to consider. First and foremost, like it or not, we are now having to seriously consider how we will work TOGETHER. There are differing cultures and work practices that must be addressed. This will not be an easy project and it is clearly obvious that QF have seriously underestimated the size of the task and the way that any changes might be achieved and the timeline needed to accomplish them. Goss is that until last week they had not considered any change management or risk assessment program!
Nobody is immune to having to change the way they do business, nor do they have a monopoly on the way tasks are undertaken. What must be achieved in this is that the most safe and (cost)efficient way of doing any one task must be examined and if necessary someone may have to change the way they do business as a result. And believe me there are many tasks that SAA, EAA & SSA achieve by different procedures and work practices. These all need to be brought into line over time and of course any duplication of effort eliminated.
Slanging off or having a moan because you are faced with something different is not the way to tackle these changes. We must be positive about the change because one way or another, sooner or later, we are going to be part of it.
It is not a case of "us" and "them". It is all "us".
Get used to it.