What's happening within the Rat, is its actually becoming a very lean full service airline. The departure of full time support non operational staff is reducing costs.
Scheduling called a couple of weeks back hoping I'd help out with a SYD- MEL- SYD. I'd run out of regency the day before.
Earlier that day I'd phoned training scheduling to tee up a sim. No call back. I called them again the next day and they weren't aware I'd been released off sick leave and needed to do something. Had I not done the follow up I would have been removed from the next trip- paid. Yeah, those cut backs are working brilliantly.