Originally Posted by
IsDon
That may well be true.
Explain to me why it's is a pilots responsibility to compensate his employer for a decision made by his employer to change aircraft types.
If Tiger wish to change types it is their responsibility to cover the cost of that change.
What about the income loss the pilot has to forego during the time off line for training?
What's next? Expect the pilot is to kick in for the cost of buying the aircraft?
If you think this won't influence anyone's decision to leave then you're kidding yourself. You can only kick a dog for so long until it decides to bite your leg off.
Well, I'm a ground person not a Pilot but this sounds to me like if QF decided to change its Departure Control and Reservations system and then tried to charge the employee for the training... it would be laughed out of the building - making changes like this is a business decision, last time I worked in a real airline, business decisions were made after a process of a business case and cost-benefit analysis - asking a Pilot to pay for their own training when they are internal is simply pathetic and why companies like these will never be 'real' airlines like QF and others are... external I can understand but internal, what a joke.