Face the facts, this company needs to remain profitable to be successful as a business, when it was you all were paid bonuses or did you forget.
We have started an international airline that will be more profitable with 7 B777's than Virgin Blue would be operating with 55 aircraft.
Virgin Blue has big shoes to fill now that we are on show to the world as a domestic airline of Australia.
To remain competitive it costs money for innovations to stay ahead of our competitors, For all of us to enjoy the fruits of success takes sacrafice and determination to do better and until this prevails your not going to get any better than whats on the table before you...
FWA cant even begin to comprehend the work you do because its text book uni students working in the government that have no real life experience dictating facts and figures and leaving out the human equation.
so if you want certainty vote YES for this or you will be left with no better outcome, no pay rise for almost 3 to 4 years straight and continue to be rostered max hours with several early sign on's and 11.30 days!
and you can forget wet lease flying because they will need to make further savings in labour using kiwis instead
If you want to be paid like a doctor than go get an OP 1 or 2 and a study a degree or better yet get a trade you will then have your monday to friday 8-5 and be getting paid x2 times what you get at virgin!!! unfortunatly you will have to suck it up or move on