What I find absolutely astonishing is when a local guy helps out on a g day, also amazed by the expats, but a local really is shooting himself in the foot.
We are short of crew. Flights would be getting cancelled now or very very soon if no one helped.
The racial discrimination laws means you can't discriminate.
To crew aircraft they need to hire many new pilots and retain the ones they have already.
They are discovering that to hire new pilots in the numbers they require they will need to up the package.
Expat terms and conditions will not go up to fix this so there is only one thing they can do!!!!!!!!
They are going to have to hugely increase the new joiner package which means they will have to hugely increase the local package also. By helping out you are delaying, or if a fall in business is just around the corner you may never get a huge increase to your pay.
And some think our management are short sighted.
