Originally Posted by
Chronic Snoozer
I'm no fan of the RAAFs personnel management but its pretty difficult to screen, recruit and train in anticipation of QANTAS recruiting. Correct me if I'm wrong but its unlikely that QANTAS tells the RAAF anything of its recruitment plans. Same thing happened in 87-88.
I don't know whether there was direct talks initially but QF certainly telegraphed it's intention to recruit when they announced the 787 order championing the 170 new pilots they'd need.
Now we're likely to take on significantly more than 170 given the increased hours on all fleets but the notice was there. We actually started recruiting about 9 months later.