ROH111
Apply for a job on your own merits? Mate, we all did when we got into Qantas. Jetstar is NOT a separate organisation, it is written on the side of the aircraft (QANTAS GROUP)... how is that separate?
I agree 100%! However, if Eastern or Sunstate were to start making FO's redundant and mainline were still hiring, do you think those FOs would be tranferred into SO jobs with no questions asked and no retesting? The idea of sending SO's to Jetstar or other group jobs is a fantastic one - but for those of us at Qlink who had to do some or all mainline retesting again (less than 2 years after passing it to get into Qlink) only to get a letter of intent and subsequently be told due to the down turn, when the time comes for recruitment again we have to redo ALL testing all over again for the THIRD time, the idea isn't so fair.
Even though we pass 4 cyclics a year in the Qantas sim building and having the flying kangaroo painted on the tail of the Dash8 - we're still treated like separate pilots working for a completely separate company. The door swings both ways.
Bring on the GOL!