rex pilots to commence industrial action
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Krusty good point of view
Good job Good A/C shut the cabin door good fun just need the money to keep people up the front.
Rediculous that the fA gets the same callout as the fo
The FA is very important in incident accident for the pax( l will never take away from the fa) but the fact of the mater the fo spent a fortune/studied/flew up north for nothing and constant checks...
Fa 2 weeks course...............??????
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Good job Good A/C shut the cabin door good fun just need the money to keep people up the front.
Rediculous that the fA gets the same callout as the fo
The FA is very important in incident accident for the pax( l will never take away from the fa) but the fact of the mater the fo spent a fortune/studied/flew up north for nothing and constant checks...
Fa 2 weeks course...............??????
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well i hope those ditching Rex arent looking at M****r....
RUMOUR has it (NB: this is the Professional Pilots RUMOUR network)..that 20 pilots will be made redundant tomorrow.
RUMOUR has it (NB: this is the Professional Pilots RUMOUR network)..that 20 pilots will be made redundant tomorrow.
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Quote from Owen:
"From where I sit there are plenty of candidates for your job regardless of what it pays. All the kids talk about is an airline job not the remuneration
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When I was a Rex FO and people found out what I earned they simply couldn't believe it....I had to tell them what I earned with a straight face just so they'd believe me. So from where your sitting do you think all these candidates are lining up regardless of what the pay is, or assuming what everyone else thinks and believes the pay is what it should be...unfortunatly not what it actually is?
"From where I sit there are plenty of candidates for your job regardless of what it pays. All the kids talk about is an airline job not the remuneration
"When I was a Rex FO and people found out what I earned they simply couldn't believe it....I had to tell them what I earned with a straight face just so they'd believe me. So from where your sitting do you think all these candidates are lining up regardless of what the pay is, or assuming what everyone else thinks and believes the pay is what it should be...unfortunatly not what it actually is?
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Here we go again, if M****r drop 20 pilots tomorrow JD will come up with some more convoluted BULL**** that they will be our savior and will be able to open the BN base again. Pathetic isn't it.
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Maybe another reason why pilots work RDO's or extend is they know if they don't there is a good chance that the flight will be cancelled leaving people stranded such as old Mavis who is going into surgery that afteroon for a hip replacement which she has been waiting 3 years for (Mavis is a fictional character btw) Maybe they care about their pax I dunno but could be why ...
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Fritzandsauce,
To what extent do the management of Rex owe Mavis this level of concern?
Before working out which flight/s will get the chop, do they endeavour to find out which flight Mavis is on, or do they work out which will hurt the company least?
Who put the pilots in this position?
To what extent do the management of Rex owe Mavis this level of concern?
Before working out which flight/s will get the chop, do they endeavour to find out which flight Mavis is on, or do they work out which will hurt the company least?
Who put the pilots in this position?
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".....airline job". R_ E_ X an Airline, an AIRLINE 
that's one of the most outlandish statements I've heard all year! Honesty I thought it was a circus..........well they pay their pilots in peanuts, don't they???
that's one of the most outlandish statements I've heard all year! Honesty I thought it was a circus..........well they pay their pilots in peanuts, don't they???
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"nohumbug well i hope those ditching Rex arent looking at M****r....
RUMOUR has it (NB: this is the Professional Pilots RUMOUR network)..that 20 pilots will be made redundant tomorrow."
nohumbug, I think you are full of it. I guess we will find out tomorrow.
The EBA at ****** is a fair one and if rex adopted a similiar one I suspect that many more of their pilots would consider their job a career position.
RUMOUR has it (NB: this is the Professional Pilots RUMOUR network)..that 20 pilots will be made redundant tomorrow."
nohumbug, I think you are full of it. I guess we will find out tomorrow.
The EBA at ****** is a fair one and if rex adopted a similiar one I suspect that many more of their pilots would consider their job a career position.
I feel for the pilots at M@cair. It is interesting that the raising of their remuneration package now makes REX pilots the lowest paid "Large" regional pilots in the country! Not bad when you consider they were once the highest paid in the country (Kendell). IMHO however (re: M@cair), it's probably a case of too little, too late.
Slightly off topic I know, but M@cair's sim slots have been suspended due to the bills not being paid. Next may be cash for fuel, and if and when the wages don't go in on time, it's all but over.
My prediction: LKH is looking closely at the QLD operator. He will step in at the last minute and offer the Administrator/Liquidator a "fair" price. He will keep the HCAOC, and soon after delete the ATR from the fleet. Command issues for the youngu'ns will be minus one more hurdle and the now ex M@cair drivers will join the ranks of the lowest paid Regional pilots in the country!
Evil! Brilliant!!
Slightly off topic I know, but M@cair's sim slots have been suspended due to the bills not being paid. Next may be cash for fuel, and if and when the wages don't go in on time, it's all but over.
My prediction: LKH is looking closely at the QLD operator. He will step in at the last minute and offer the Administrator/Liquidator a "fair" price. He will keep the HCAOC, and soon after delete the ATR from the fleet. Command issues for the youngu'ns will be minus one more hurdle and the now ex M@cair drivers will join the ranks of the lowest paid Regional pilots in the country!
Evil! Brilliant!!
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Bo777, Couldn't agree more. REX is a sad excuse for an airline. "Airline pilots" stick together and Airline managers listen to their pilot group especially once their EBA has expired.
LKH, JD, and CH are treating us all with contempt.
Bring on the PIA and lets stop playing games. We have all the Aces.... Lets use them.
LKH, JD, and CH are treating us all with contempt.
Bring on the PIA and lets stop playing games. We have all the Aces.... Lets use them.
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Flacid pilot group?
My god;
It sucks the big one that the "economic crisis" has come at this time. Makes it hard to push for bigger wages and at the same time stop people working RDO's etc.
But, all I can say is ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER than words.
Is thats why LKH says "no cant pay pilots too much no money"...... yet REX just purchased four more aircraft, with not enough crew to fly the ones they have already!
A slap in the face to the EBA Negotiations.
So, Balls out of the handbags ladies, uh hum, I mean flight crew, we can whine all we want but until there is unity, and we will see when the votes are tallied, and in the way we conduct ourselves i.e. call outs etc there will be only fluff in the wind...... unfortunately that's what management and LKH know only too well.
Ps - to an earlier comment about telling people what you get paid; YES its F
king embarrassing.
No wonder people leave.
It sucks the big one that the "economic crisis" has come at this time. Makes it hard to push for bigger wages and at the same time stop people working RDO's etc.
But, all I can say is ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER than words.
Is thats why LKH says "no cant pay pilots too much no money"...... yet REX just purchased four more aircraft, with not enough crew to fly the ones they have already!
A slap in the face to the EBA Negotiations.
So, Balls out of the handbags ladies, uh hum, I mean flight crew, we can whine all we want but until there is unity, and we will see when the votes are tallied, and in the way we conduct ourselves i.e. call outs etc there will be only fluff in the wind...... unfortunately that's what management and LKH know only too well.
Ps - to an earlier comment about telling people what you get paid; YES its F
king embarrassing. No wonder people leave.
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Just for clarity lil_blueberry 
Regional Express (Rex), today announced that it had purchased 4 Saab 340 B model aircraft. The aircraft were originally operating in the Rex fleet under a lease which expired in October 08. The acquisition was funded from Rex's operating cash flows.
The purchase brings the number of Saab 340 aircraft owned by Rex to 24.
Regional Express (Rex) is Australia’s largest independent regional airline operating a fleet of 40 Saab 340 aircraft on more than 1,200 flights weekly to 24 destinations from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The Rex Group comprises Regional Express, air freight and charter operator Pel-Air Aviation and Dubbo based regional airline Air Link, as well as the pilot academy Australian Airline Pilot Academy.
yet REX just purchased four more aircraft, with not enough crew to fly the ones they have already!
Originally Posted by REX website
Rex Purchases 4 Saab340 AircraftMonday, 3 November 2008
Regional Express (Rex), today announced that it had purchased 4 Saab 340 B model aircraft. The aircraft were originally operating in the Rex fleet under a lease which expired in October 08. The acquisition was funded from Rex's operating cash flows.
The purchase brings the number of Saab 340 aircraft owned by Rex to 24.
Regional Express (Rex) is Australia’s largest independent regional airline operating a fleet of 40 Saab 340 aircraft on more than 1,200 flights weekly to 24 destinations from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The Rex Group comprises Regional Express, air freight and charter operator Pel-Air Aviation and Dubbo based regional airline Air Link, as well as the pilot academy Australian Airline Pilot Academy.
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Make your opinions known en mass to the AFAP/RexPC
If we all stop working our Annual leave, RDO’s and never ever extend without payment, the cancellation rate will be astronomical. Management surely would have to ‘take stock’ and readdress their very strong stand point on the EBA.
Get off pprune gentlemen and email our union, email the rexpc, write letters. The AFAP is not our union, the REX pilots as a group are the union only represented by the AFAP so you need to make your opinions known to them so they may act on our behalf.
This 3% x 3% x 3% over the next EBA or the 5% each year without profit share/share gift is a disgusting offer which drastically falls short. We should be pushing for 15-17% in the first year and then the option of 3% (with share) or 5% (without share in following years). And also linking the subsequential rises to CPI, so 3% or CPI whichever is greater.
