The whole thing is a mess, QLink and Cobham. Time to change management and bring everything under one roof.
Yes it is and your solution logical and rational. That is precisely why it will not be done. The whole system and I am talking well over the number of engineers QF has staffing who has a stated purpose of lowering labour unit cost.
- Subsidiary flying
- Contractors flying
- Less than good faith bargaining
The US carriers and O' Leary the architects of an adversarial system that spends more time on taking money out of employee pockets than it does ever doing things efficiently.
Whilst I agree with the sentiments, the beast is well entrenched.