Further to the above, please note:
1. The AIPA Executive was instructed by the AIPA COM to agree with Qantas Airway’s Limited AIPA Members job security and career progress before instructing me to discontinue the Qantas Sale Act matter. The AIPA Executive did not and has not yet done, what the AIPA Committee instructed it to do.
2. The AIPA Executive has been advised that (Ian Woods) rightly refused the request of Qantas as dismissal would imply that the proceeding was wrongly brought. Dismissal would enable Qantas to represent to the Minister and Parliament, to Investors and to the Industry, that the Federal Court of Australia had dismissed a legal challenge to alleged breaches by Qantas Airways Limited of its obligations under the Qantas Sale Act, a public law of the Commonwealth of Australia.
3. No information as to what led the AIPA Executive to see the discontinuance of the proceeding as being advantageous to AIPA or Qantas Group Pilots has been provided to AIPA Members.
4. Both Senior Counsel retained by me, and AIPA’s legal advisor, hold the view that Qantas Airways Limited were also of the opinion that the proceeding, if left on foot, would be likely to succeed.
5. If continued, the proceeding will give AIPA and its pilot members some leverage against further and potentially more serious breaches of the Qantas Sale Act adversely affecting job security and career progression of Qantas pilots.
Is now the Members' call.