If JC get placed on the bottom of the QF seniority list I dare say it will set up a very good precedent for Qantaslink and Network to follow the same path.
The mistake being made is that the permutations being made by the company are rational: I suspect you would be sorely disappointed.
Don’t worry about them too much, the world is short of pilots at the moment. Think of the whole QF pilot group as a unit, it can get healthier, or sicker.
The world is demographically short of pilots. They well know this.
Keeping division helps downward pressure on labour unit cost. They will not give that up. The whole model of IR at Qantas group,
is adversarial.
The labour representatives will maintain 'consultation continues', perhaps they even believe it.
- Qantas will not integrate the pilots, those pilots will remain on existing terms.
- It is already well underway, AOC, simulator training and all the rest.
- By the time the 'business leaders' and 'labour union leaders' return from annual Christmas leave, it will be already rolling. There is likely a team working 'project whatever'
- Qantas pilots will get a nice email from the company and the union.
Got a fork? This one's done!