I don't think pay rates are the issue.
The real issue is the overtime.
If QF use the 789 to its full capability then current overtime rules would mean substantial increased gross payments.
Pity the poor sods who are junior and get domestic, eventually!
I don't think they'll sell it a 'B' scale.
You'll get a commensurate hourly pay rate but changes to overtime.
Are you happy with that?
I don't think any negotiators over the years envisaged duty periods extending to twenty hours. The company would never have agreed to the overtime component.
I don't think they are prepared to do it now.
No news really...makes sense what their trying to do.
Having said that QF pilots have paid for these overtime provisions.
Silly to agree to give them up. A slap in the face to those who worked hard to get them in the first place.