Qantas cuts jobs and flights as fuel costs bite
Matt O'Sullivan March 30, 2011.
Qantas has stepped up its efforts to combat high jet fuel prices by announcing cuts to management jobs, retirement of older aircraft and a reduction of domestic and international flights.
Yes, thanks for your answer. I guess you are experienced pilots.
But what you, wannabes think right now? What a 20 years old is expecting from our industry? Do you think you will retire as a pilot 40 years from now? What the training industry has been telling you? Did you really get informed about the fuel situation on earth? Do you really think you shouldn't take it into account? Do you expect to find a pilot job to reimbourse your loan?
What makes you decide to pay for your training in 2011, when 10 years from now (much before maybe, by 2014 many analyst are saying) we won't have enough fuel for the aviation as we know it today, the mass transportation one?
Do you really understand that from now on (since end of 2007 in fact), only a recession can calm the fuel price down, and nobody in our industry has a growth plan with a fuel at $120 like it is today?