Out of the 1000 employees how many pilots will be made redundant ?
If your question is how this affects other parties that are not going to be needed in the overseas programs that pornstar are suggesting... then I guess the outcome will be that any personnel other than pilots and engineers will be seriously disadvantaged by this action.
Any program starting up in asia right now is going to have issues getting crew and engineering staff. If you look at China, the cost of manpower is now substantial, and there still is a large shortage, particularly in the...A320/737 (Korea is a special case; the revolving door of the airline is legendary, at any price. Korea competes with the sandpit in losing staff, and the associated cost of churn). Japan? yep, AJX/V still having issues getting staff.
Engineers? already entering the country on special visa's, so I guess that will open up the spectre of cancelling the visa's as the purported shortage used to get the engineers into the country is apparently non existent.
Everyone else probably gets outsourced. Guess the existing wait time for call center response will just get better and better as a result (at least for the competitions case).
Condolences for all those that considered the iconic status of the company would give some stability to their lives, mostly for those that believed that in a time of globalisation that loyalty had any merit.
QF needs to compete, and management needs to ensure that it does; I, like many other observers am concerned that the facts presented surrounding the decisions of the management are rather economical with the truth and that the proposed plan by the management is incomprehensible in the light of the known facts of performance of the LCC's that have been started already in this experiment (An assertion by JAL management that J* adds competency is hardly something to be proud of... no offence to my friends at JAL, but damn.... Group Think methinks....
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Removing all the emotion (which is hard, people are going to get hurt...) and coldly looking at the maths, the stated performance of the international division does not sit comfortably, nor does the emphatic position that the new LCC's in asia act in any way to change any fundamental condition of the group. (excluding bonuses to the management, or income to Orangestar leasing... where AJ is a director...).
For the engineers and pilots about to be cast into the diaspora, do ask around before choosing any of the contract agencies out there... there are some competent agencies, but that is not the norm, it is the exception. (web presence is hardly evidence of performance).
Alternatively, show some collective backbone and conduct an LBO. probably the last chance for QF to be a respected industry player.