Qantas Recruitment
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In return for what?
Given we’re now in the early stages of the Aus pilot shortage, and there’s a well established and significant global shortage, and E3s to USA majors may soon be on the cards, and currently 40%+ pay rises in the states - I don’t think they’ll be chasing 3%/year 🤣
Management are so close to walking out at the end of the year with they’re bonuses after running the airline into the ground. Cash bonuses, share schemes, jacked up share price for an airline that has zero assets and about 12 efficient aircraft in a fleet of many hundreds. Everything is about short-term ramping up of the share price so they can leave with their own pockets full.
I’m sure they won’t want to get involved in a huge stoush with pilots. They will want to get it done so can they can quietly disappear into the night with their bags full of cash. There won’t be another airline shutdown as an industrial tool, because the board know the public are sick of their sh*t. They won’t risk their bonuses when the public disdain for Qantas is so high, nor would the government step in like they did last time.
The new engineer agreement shows what can be achieved. They received pay increments “in line with the wage agreement” BS so that management got their bonuses and could save face, but most of the engineers got huge pay increases through other avenues. We’re talking 20, 30, 40%.
That’s what it’s about at this point - management hell bent on getting personal bonuses. They’ll happily put through an agreement at the eleventh hour where pilots get a 30% increase in package … provided they can tell the board the new agreement is “in line with the wage freeze policy”.
It’s only once they’ve disappeared into the night with their own pockets full of money, to be sure to be sure, that the board and shareholders will realise they’ve been had.
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The engineers got that because they have balls, Qantas pilots have none.
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The new engineer agreement shows what can be achieved. They received pay increments “in line with the wage agreement” BS so that management got their bonuses and could save face, but most of the engineers got huge pay increases through other avenues. We’re talking 20, 30, 40%.
Not at all but as usual you jump to conclusions. Covid was what it was a bad situation all round for everyone.
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Fantasy talk of 20-30% is just a waste of time, by the time we are negotiating the economy will be in the crapper enough that the Group will play the ‘tough times ahead’ spiel.
And then in typical Qantas fashion it will be time for another round of VR
Having said that it seems that the recent spikes in cost of living haven’t decreased passenger numbers at all, from what I’m told forward bookings look strong and plenty of opportunity for more growth, especially internationally. The level of flying that exists now is still below what it was at 2019 levels, so even an economic recession in 2023 which generally would see flying go backwards, would not affect the airline as the airline still has to get to a 2019 level yet.
Qantas pilots had the opportunity to vote down the last two EA in both cases they resoundingly voted them up. They were shocking deals proving what I was told as a young SO by an old Captain “ son never get in the way of a Qantas pilot and $10”.
Maybe you could give me some examples
well there was the opportunity to change bidding for one.
and the proposed screwing of everyone by right sizing the establishment over COVID.
a suggestion that SH pilots should be sharing a portion of their income with LH over COVID.
wanting to displace onto the 330 and then have first right of return to the 380
ask around, you’ll find more.
and the proposed screwing of everyone by right sizing the establishment over COVID.
a suggestion that SH pilots should be sharing a portion of their income with LH over COVID.
wanting to displace onto the 330 and then have first right of return to the 380
ask around, you’ll find more.
So where have the senior pilots succeeded? The change to bidding went to a vote or did you forget and not one rank on one aircraft was successful. Next please?
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330/350 contract is another example.
You mean the C scale for new SOs