In one of their desperate moves to fill the crewing holes, the Flight Ops management has sent contract pilots on a full A340 conversion training course in exchange of a 4 months (only) contract, after discovering that a CCQ (of course also fully paid for) is only acceptable for pilots already employed and flown for the Company !! Papers rejected by CAA. Shame. The total cost of this conversion course must have been huge bucks. Drawn of course not from Uncle Banny’s pay, but from the shareholders’ pockets as usual.
Wet leasing an Air Tahiti aircraft during the peak period, costing again huge bucks to the company. Wonder if it was still due to the incompetence, lack of vision and lack of anticipation of the flight Ops management?
At the moment we are being thrown around the places on a day to day basis, without a proper roster and without even knowing with who we are flying next. Well, this is no mater anyway because the so-called roster is being changed daily… in a scheduled airline !! Prestige. It is worth mentioning though, that the Flop Guns (courtesy BugsB) are OF COURSE getting the most favourable rotations and destinations for themselves and their families.They even had the audacity to cut on our allowances to compensate all this, causing the threat of an even bigger pilot exodus. Like a slap in the face, they were forced to review this and reinstated the allowances with retroactive effect !