Originally Posted by fedsec
Originally Posted by romulus
The numbers are what they are SP. Virgin Tech has a clear "advantage" over the equivalent QF services.
C'mon Romulus. You should know better than most that an airline that outsources part of it's workforce still wears the cost of that work.
If an airline didn't directly employ any Pilots but contracted them through a Labour Hire company, they aren't running an airline without Pilots.
Virgin Australia technically do not employ any Engineers. They are all employed by Virgin Tech. If the numbers are what they are Romulus, are Virgin running their airline without Engineers?
That's why I used the term "equivalent" and the word "Virgin" not Virgin Tech.
Once you build up the model of how Virgin, as a whole, get their engineering done, as a whole, they utilise far fewer FTEs than QF on a scaled basis. QF can't even get the economies of scale for overhead and other costs to work for them.