Enforcement of QF Long Haul (Pilot) award for up coming redundancies
One of the fleet managers was talking the other day about the need for 130-140 redundancies. My understanding is that most of these redundancies will occur on the B767
This ties in with the chief pilots recent letter.
It also indicates that Ian Oldmeadow still has almost complete control of Qantas IR policy.
As we all know, redundancies are a fact of life in aviation. Most of us have been laid off at some time or another.
However, this situation has been DIRECTLY caused by aircraft and routes being gifted to entities outside of Qantas mainline, with mainline pilots not being given the opportunity to bid or negotiate for the work.
Jetstar, Jetconnect and the new trans tasman freight operation.
So, when it comes to redundancies, AIPA must provide no relief from the provisions of the award.
This situation is a test case for the B787, where, given that it is likely Qantas will farm the 'red tail' flying out to an 'new' company designed to lower T's & C's even further, there will be up to 600-700 further redundancies.