Arctaurus and The Bolter
AIPA is doing nothing more than trying to improve job security for its members. One of the ways it can do that is by trying to enforce the provisions of the MOU on both JQ and QF management.
There is nothing "out of seniority" about a QF pilot who comes across under the MOU to JQ for a command.
If you are unhappy about the existence of the MOU then either;
1. It was voted in by a majority of your peers in 2004, or;
2. You joined JQ after that magic date in which case you signed up knowing (or should have known) the existence of the MOU.
No one has ever denied that from time to time there could be a conflict of interest between the 2 pilot groups for AIPA.
In the interests of pilot group unity, from time to time there may or may not be one side that does better than the other in some situations.
Cost of doing business and achieving a higher goal.
If you AFAP guys are going to run to the hills every time something gets a bit hard then:
1. Pilot unity and AusALPA will never happen in this country.
2. AIPA will eventually capture about 75% of all JQ pilots, rendering AFAP a redundant dinosaur because it will not be able to achieve anything with its doors closed to 2500 other very close knit and unified QF mainline pilots.
AFAP's choice.
And just because you bought it up,
If you lot are that concerned about things happening on seniority, how come AFAP showed up at FWA and defended the company position on the Right of Return dispute AIPA has regarding the DRW pilots taking commands elsewhere in the network outside of seniority?