QLINK parking Q300s at Tamworth?
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Another Union achievement. Parked aircraft and retirements should be replaced by new aircraft, unless incompetent Union Officials drive them elsewhere. Congrats Champions!
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Off to Auckland?
Aren't Qlink recruiting at the moment? Their website seems to suggest it is.
Cheers,
Greaser
Edit: well it did as of a few days ago. I think it was only for Sunstate though. Truly it did but now I can't find it.
Cheers,
Greaser
Edit: well it did as of a few days ago. I think it was only for Sunstate though. Truly it did but now I can't find it.
QLink are hiring for both Eastern and Sunstate.
It's just a limitation of the software used to generate the advertisement that only one group entity can be listed.
This has come from a member of the pilot council and management.
EDIT: It looks like the ad has gone but people have already been asked to conduct psych testing for an unknown interview date.
It's just a limitation of the software used to generate the advertisement that only one group entity can be listed.
This has come from a member of the pilot council and management.
EDIT: It looks like the ad has gone but people have already been asked to conduct psych testing for an unknown interview date.
Thanks Going Nowhere! I thought I was going crazy but there definitely was an advert! I'm surprised it wasn't more widely acknowledged. It's kind of a big deal when Qlink start recruiting again.
Cheers,
Greaser.
Cheers,
Greaser.
The add has gone because it's no longer a Qlink position, you need to look at Jetstar.
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I have my opinions but interested to hear others thoughts on this.
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True, but with the advertisement pulled, I think the clear priority is now propstar.
4 Captains and 3.833 FO's per airframe, who are they kidding ?
To me, this sounds poorly thought out, poorly driven and a mess waiting to happen, I wonder how many marriages this will cost when it gets folded up in twelve months time ?
Just saw a photo from a mate in Tamworth on the "facepalm" with about five dash 8-300s parked on the grass/aprons at Tamworth...
Despite assertions at the time from "management" that Jetstar wasn't going to take any Qantas routes and flying, that's exactly what they did - and continue to do.
The plan all along was to slowly transfer work onto Cheapstar to get costs down, because of those pesky (but world's best) flight crew and engineers were so expensive.
I wonder if this is the start of the same thing for their prop operations.
In five years time, will all the Aussie QLink Dash 8's will be flying around in Cheapstar paint schemes, fixing themselves, with pilots on half the money - and lining up to buy their own endorsement (read as "buy their way into a job")?
If they were prepared to destroy QF mainline with Jetstar, there's no reason they won't look to do the same with the Dash8 operations.
If I were a Dash8 QLink driver, I'd be starting to feel pretty nervous.
The plan all along was to slowly transfer work onto Cheapstar to get costs down, because of those pesky (but world's best) flight crew and engineers were so expensive.
I wonder if this is the start of the same thing for their prop operations.
In five years time, will all the Aussie QLink Dash 8's will be flying around in Cheapstar paint schemes, fixing themselves, with pilots on half the money - and lining up to buy their own endorsement (read as "buy their way into a job")?
If they were prepared to destroy QF mainline with Jetstar, there's no reason they won't look to do the same with the Dash8 operations.
If I were a Dash8 QLink driver, I'd be starting to feel pretty nervous.
Despite assertions at the time from "management" that Jetstar wasn't going to take any Qantas routes and flying, that's exactly what they did - and continue to do.
The plan all along was to slowly transfer work onto Cheapstar to get costs down, because of those pesky (but world's best) flight crew and engineers were so expensive.
I wonder if this is the start of the same thing for their prop operations.
In five years time, will all the Aussie QLink Dash 8's will be flying around in Cheapstar paint schemes, fixing themselves, with pilots on half the money - and lining up to buy their own endorsement (read as "buy their way into a job")?
If they were prepared to destroy QF mainline with Jetstar, there's no reason they won't look to do the same with the Dash8 operations.
If I were a Dash8 QLink driver, I'd be starting to feel pretty nervous.
The plan all along was to slowly transfer work onto Cheapstar to get costs down, because of those pesky (but world's best) flight crew and engineers were so expensive.
I wonder if this is the start of the same thing for their prop operations.
In five years time, will all the Aussie QLink Dash 8's will be flying around in Cheapstar paint schemes, fixing themselves, with pilots on half the money - and lining up to buy their own endorsement (read as "buy their way into a job")?
If they were prepared to destroy QF mainline with Jetstar, there's no reason they won't look to do the same with the Dash8 operations.
If I were a Dash8 QLink driver, I'd be starting to feel pretty nervous.
The reason it wouldn't work here is Qantas already established a strong regional market in Oz and despite the criticisms still considered a premium airline by its customers. So why change that brand marketing/modelling to Jetstar, never mind the additional costs in rebranding all to Jetstar.
So why change that brand marketing/modelling to Jetstar
First of all it will 6-12 months of heavy loss making in NZ.
Then they'll move a few across to Australia "but they won't compete with existing routes, just leisure destinations".
Then they'll say how QLink are losing too much money.
Then JetstarLink will come along as the saviour and, lo and behold, start operating on QLink routes.
Eventually, Jetstar will be doing the majority of the prop flying and cadets will be lining up to pay money for a job, and people will be buying dash8 endorsements to jump the queue.
Well that's how I imagine it might go. Time will tell.
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What exactly attracts people to the airline game??? I think its that the future is so promising, i mean lower wages, longer hours, major responsibility etc. Knowing that your job is on the line just because you had a bad day, we must be good to handle this stuff! Just like James Bond
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