Qantas Recruitment

[spandexo]

Does anyone have any idea when the first interviews are kicking off for 2024? i.e Late Jan, Feb?
Any ideas on when potential start dates for 2024 interviewees could commence?
Cheers

[BEVLY9]

Does anybody know if there was new assessment centre slots released today?

[iBlueGoose]

Originally Posted by spandexo

Does anyone have any idea when the first interviews are kicking off for 2024? i.e Late Jan, Feb?
Any ideas on when potential start dates for 2024 interviewees could commence?
Cheers

Interviews are kicking off from 18th of Jan.

[On Guard]

Originally Posted by iBlueGoose

Interviews are kicking off from 18th of Jan.

Good luck to all.

[Swept-Wing]

Calls for April 2024 starts went out this week.

[Parkender]

Hi all,

Anyone know roughly when more interview slots will be released?

[metro7]

Rumour is the 15th of every month. Not sure if any were released this month.

[Wetwilly]

Just wondering

Just wondering, maybe I've missed it.

It sounds like the LH EBA will be up for negotiation again soon. Can anyone advise if there is talk of improving (amongst other things) the salary of the Second Officers on the new pay scale. Not really a liveable salary in the major ports.

How low do people think the A321 may go on the seniority list?

Thanks in advance!

[SixDemonBag]

Originally Posted by Wetwilly

Just wondering, maybe I've missed it.

It sounds like the LH EBA will be up for negotiation again soon. Can anyone advise if there is talk of improving (amongst other things) the salary of the Second Officers on the new pay scale. Not really a liveable salary in the major ports.

How low do people think the A321 may go on the seniority list?

Thanks in advance!

That ship only recently just sailed and it might not be coming back for a while.

Plenty of SH slots available in most ports, that pay in excess of LH SO rates though. Just saying

[Username here]

Originally Posted by SixDemonBag

That ship only recently just sailed and it might not be coming back for a while.

What ‘ship has only recently just sailed?’

Didn’t AIPA put up a court challenge to the B scale? That’s probably a better shot than them negotiating an increase for the new Second Officers. Especially noting that they still haven’t even got a sim or qualified any trainers on the A350.

Surely the longer it goes the stronger a case gets….

[dr dre]

Originally Posted by Wetwilly

It sounds like the LH EBA will be up for negotiation again soon. Can anyone advise if there is talk of improving (amongst other things) the salary of the Second Officers on the new pay scale. Not really a liveable salary in the major ports.

As long as they keep getting application numbers well in excess of positions available then there’s no incentive to increase pay. I’ve heard about 1000 applicants for 200 positions to be interviewed throughout this year

How low do people think the A321 may go on the seniority list?

For F/O? Probably the same as 737. So within a year or so for most.

[VH-RME]

Originally Posted by dr dre

As long as they keep getting application numbers well in excess of positions available then there’s no incentive to increase pay. I’ve heard about 1000 applicants for 200 positions to be interviewed throughout this year.

Is that out of those given assessment centre slots? In other words, if you have an assessment centre date, what is the chance of ending up with a start date?

[SixDemonBag]

Originally Posted by Username here

What ‘ship has only recently just sailed?’

Didn’t AIPA put up a court challenge to the B scale? That’s probably a better shot than them negotiating an increase for the new Second Officers. Especially noting that they still haven’t even got a sim or qualified any trainers on the A350.

Surely the longer it goes the stronger a case gets….

same job, same pay - aside, the concession was given away on the last EBA. That’s the ship I was referring to. Court proceedings will only delay the inevitable…when the plane actually NEEDS pilots to be trained on it.

[dr dre]

Originally Posted by VH-RME

Is that out of those given assessment centre slots? In other words, if you have an assessment centre date, what is the chance of ending up with a start date?

No I believe that’s total applicants. Not all applicants would get the go ahead to start the assessment process, and not all of those who are assessed will make it to the hold file. But I’m not sure how many got invited to be assessed.

[mattandy]

QF Domestic Cabin Crew Applications

Hi everyone, does anyone know when QF will put the call out for Sydney based domestic cabin crew applications?

[SixDemonBag]

Originally Posted by mattandy

Hi everyone, does anyone know when QF will put the call out for Sydney based domestic cabin crew applications?

[Hello123]

Is there a future in mainline short haul? Qantas currently has 75 737s that are being replaced by a confirmed 20 A320s. With the current recruitment taking pilots direct to the 737 what will happen to the excess short haul pilots as the 737 fleet is reduced?

[dr dre]

Originally Posted by Hello123

Is there a future in mainline short haul? Qantas currently has 75 737s that are being replaced by a confirmed 20 A320s. With the current recruitment taking pilots direct to the 737 what will happen to the excess short haul pilots as the 737 fleet is reduced?

QF is currently hiring 1500 pilots over 10 years. Take out the amount of projected retirements and expansion of LH flying with the Sunrise aircraft and that stills leaves several hundred excess pilots, so they aren’t going to remove 70% of SH flying out of the system.

There’s 134 combined narrowbody replacements and terminals aren’t big enough for them to be all A220s so I expect more 321XLRs to be ordered in future years to cope with this.

[SixDemonBag]

They’ll probably go fly more 321’s. The current 737 fleet wasn’t ordered in one hit of 75. The 330 wasn’t. The 787’s weren’t. The 350 isn’t even here and it’s been ordered in stages. Why would the 321 be any different?

Probably a good chance to fly the a220 too 🤪

[aussieflyboy]

Originally Posted by SixDemonBag

Probably a good chance to fly the a220 too 🤪

As long as you don’t mind the 40% pay cut, 65 hour overtime limit and paxing in the middle row down the back…