Qantas Recruitment
Only if there is a package on offer.
What will be interesting is if the A380 loses some of the high-value (overtime) flying between now and then or soon after. The Melbourne base has already seen a substantial decrease in this flying with the loss of DXB-LHR. There is certainly still plenty there for the senior pilots in each rank but for those migrating from the 744 who'll be relatively junior, a move to the 787 may be financially equivalent - and it's a Boeing!
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Company Thought Bubble:
Send any who can displace to the A380, but don’t displace. Carry a surplus which pushes the divisor down to 160 for many years. Those pilots reaching the MRA will then retire based on 160 hours instead of 180 based on their last 3 bid periods. I don’t know what the money difference would be.
Calling their bluff? I can’t see them displacing anybody. But I guess there is no guarantee that divisors will stay high on the 747.
Send any who can displace to the A380, but don’t displace. Carry a surplus which pushes the divisor down to 160 for many years. Those pilots reaching the MRA will then retire based on 160 hours instead of 180 based on their last 3 bid periods. I don’t know what the money difference would be.
Calling their bluff? I can’t see them displacing anybody. But I guess there is no guarantee that divisors will stay high on the 747.
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The ROSO on a training course I think is generally considered to be about two years. Rather than offering a VR package of X weeks per year worked the company may better off offering a flat fee of about a couple of hundred K with associated VR tax concessions. That’d be a win/ win I reckon and would probably save some double training over a period of a couple of years.
I guess we will know more when the company puts out the plan regarding the retirement of aeroplanes and it’s impact on 744 pilot numbers.
I guess we will know more when the company puts out the plan regarding the retirement of aeroplanes and it’s impact on 744 pilot numbers.
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Usually the target for the roster build... Ie. 160-180 credits per 8 week roster
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Company Thought Bubble:
Send any who can displace to the A380, but don’t displace. Carry a surplus which pushes the divisor down to 160 for many years. Those pilots reaching the MRA will then retire based on 160 hours instead of 180 based on their last 3 bid periods. I don’t know what the money difference would be.
Send any who can displace to the A380, but don’t displace. Carry a surplus which pushes the divisor down to 160 for many years. Those pilots reaching the MRA will then retire based on 160 hours instead of 180 based on their last 3 bid periods. I don’t know what the money difference would be.
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Tankengine, QSL defined benefit super is based on a pilot’s final average salary. Lower final average salary = less super. So if pilots are working the minimum, rather than the maximum number of hours = less super.
Of the EA? Yeah, it has some signatures on it. Best reading in the whole document. I’ll give you a tip too, the last paragraph of War and Peace bears a striking resemblance to the state of mind it has been necessary to maintain for the last 10+ years.
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For div 1 and 2 it is 132hrs per bid period, I think 170hrs for Div3.