Second Officers earning over $180,000? And people here say there is no need to reduce Qantas's legacy costs?
Pilots, engineers and the guy throwing the bags in the hull all produce some outcome to the core business, which is transporting people in aeroplanes. In other words they are productive to the core business. now lets take someone like Olivier, what does she contribute to the core business, in other words what does she contribute to productivity? Now there are a mountain of people in this catagory at Q and, infact, a lot of other bussinesses. So it would seem to me that to increase productivity you need to reduce the amount of money spent on the NON productive first before starting to look at the productive people. Now I know that no business can survive without a certain amount of admin (therefore non productive ) staff, but it would seem to me that the non productive, and generally the most expensive area, is the best place to start the fat trimming.
What say you.
