Gnads,
You dont think that payrise was due to pilots leaving as apposed to CC?
Attrition was a major contributor of course. Which is why I have always argued to never make yourself easy to replace, by paying for training, or dumbing down of standards ( classic low cost models ).
The contact compliance campaign was long and arduous. But it worked so well that when a rescue package was put in place it was called "Back on Board". Which lasted a few minutes until the GFC arrived.
The littlest of things. Pilots asking for their log books to be stamped, even though they had no intentions of leaving, had managers unsure of attrition. Even pprune had been used as an effective industrial tool- deterring new arrivals and having senior managers answerable for mismanaging some aspects of the campaign I'd prefer not to mention.
We were a big hit with the media too. As far away as Time magazine.
Anyway. Good luck to the
VB pilots. I actually hope a bunch my colleagues take the job and aid another payrise for me.
