Seems to me
VB pay is about where it should be...now the challenge may be to improve Conditions of Service WITHOUT negatively impacting on the productivity which has been, one would assume, the basis of the recent payrise.
And for those of you who believe that a pilot is undervalued if he's not on (current) QF equivalent pay consider this. The world over operations like
VB are being hugely successful while operations like QF are not so, leaving aside QFs current good fortune. Look at UAL/DELTA etc...if it can happen there it most assuredly can, indeed will,happen here.
And when, over time, QF mainlines pay is wound back it won't be the fault of
VB or her pilots...it will be the world trend catching up dununnder.
Just how many multiples of the Oz average wage do you guys think is appropriate for a domestic jet pilot?
More money, beyond a certain point, fixes no problems if you are never at home to enjoy it...all it does is maximise your (ex)wifes windfall when she takes the kids and 'goes home to Mother'.
But I suppose now that Qlink pilots are the low blokes on the pay Totem they will be scorned as driving pilot wages in Oz into the toilet and
VB will be held up as the shining light?
Chuck.