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Old 8th Jun 2011, 11:51
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distracted cockroach
 
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Can't give you numbers, but there are quite a few ex-Ansett NZ guys there who, incidently, have been wearing a Qantas uniform since Tasman Pacific began operating as Qantas NZ back in the BAe146 days (domestic only of course) There are others from Ansett NZ Regional, as well as some Australians (some fair, some foul), many of whom are probably ex Ansett guys who also found themselves without a job.
From the point of an interested observer, I'd say many posters here are playing the man rather than the ball. Jetconnect pilots were offered jobs and accepted them in good faith. The fact that Qantas management seem to be using them as a leverage tool against QF pilots isn't their fault....if the QF pilot's representatives had built themselves a contract with a proper "scope" clause (similar to the Air NZ contract, which prevented Freedom being expanded) in the first place, they wouldn't be having this problem. First Jetconnect, then Jetstar, both management tools to reduce costs, both sneered at by Qantas pilots, but who are the ones feeling the pain now?
Too little and way too late. Qantas pilots need to look at themselves and ask why it took 10 years for the outsourcing of jobs to be recognised as a problem (or if recognised, why nothing was done)
Certainly there were a lot of observers all over the world wondering why QF pilots sat back and did nothing whilst Jetstar was set up and expanded. Jetconnect is small-fry in comparison.
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