Pilot shortage
....and another easily negotiated item. Don't pay for endorsements.
Bonding sure (employers needs to protect themselves from a rapid turnover of pilots) but no need to pay upfront for endorsements.
Bonding sure (employers needs to protect themselves from a rapid turnover of pilots) but no need to pay upfront for endorsements.
....and another easily negotiated item. Don't pay for endorsements.
Those who have been burned with the latest JETGO fiasco deserve everything they get.
Pilot funded endorsements should never be an industrial bargaining issue for unions. Those who chose to do this degraded the industry for everyone of their own volition and selfishness. Has nothing to do with EBA negotiations.
So the Qantas CEO makes 30 million dollars and is the highest paid CEO in the Country
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Pilot funded endorsements should never be an industrial bargaining issue for unions. Those who chose to do this degraded the industry for everyone of their own volition and selfishness.
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His performance is well below his peers.
- In a decade Qantas Group revenues have fallen 5% in real terms.
- Margin growth is not structural change. Majority accounting derived change.
- Fuel price decline the major contributor to margin improvement.
- Share buy back improving key metrics like EPS.
He is certainly the highest remunerated in the Asia Pacific region.
His performance is well below his peers.
His performance is well below his peers.
- In a decade Qantas Group revenues have fallen 5% in real terms.
- Margin growth is not structural change. Majority accounting derived change.
- Fuel price decline the major contributor to margin improvement.
- Share buy back improving key metrics like EPS.
Anyone who thinks that is a good way to run a business is clearly in on the scam. She's gutted sadly!!
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IR is where he’s made his impact. Pitting company against subsidiary, subsidiary against subsidiary to yield desired effect. The good running of Qantas as a single entity is clearly not his sole focus, thus we have the illustrious Qantas Group - comprising of a number of subsidiaries able to be cut/disbanded, practically free of what he’d consider suffocating IR issues. For this I think he is remunerated albeit, disproportionately and not commensurate.
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You forgot to mention outsourcing of most of the airline peripheral services and most of it's regional flying to non QANTAS group companies, sometimes below what it would really cost to maintain. Some of those contractors are skimping on EBA provisions, wonder why that would be. Also EOD and the exponential rise in deferred defects being carried on many red tailed aircraft that didn't happen once.
Anyone who thinks that is a good way to run a business is clearly in on the scam. She's gutted sadly!!
Anyone who thinks that is a good way to run a business is clearly in on the scam. She's gutted sadly!!
IR is where he’s made his impact. Pitting company against subsidiary, subsidiary against subsidiary to yield desired effect. The good running of Qantas as a single entity is clearly not his sole focus, thus we have the illustrious Qantas Group - comprising of a number of subsidiaries able to be cut/disbanded, practically free of what he’d consider suffocating IR issues. For this I think he is remunerated albeit, disproportionately and not commensurate. He is like that fart you dropped in an elevator, rank and tends to linger.
When one takes a step back and looks at Qantas it has failed this responsibility by deferring fleet decisions and heavily focusing on labour unit cost reductions (IR/HR) It has also failed to anticipate, prepare for and execute a strategy to counter the obvious industry wide pilot shortage. It either willfully ignored or lacks the institutional foresight to see a clear strategic risk to the business: A lack of qualified and appropriate pilots. This strategic failure is axiomatic. That failure is his.
Whether Mr Joyce has any self reflection is a matter for himself. He however had a real opportunity to steer Qantas in a different direction, A aviation light board, with a industrial head kicker and aviation light weight as the Chair, perhaps Mr Joyce grabbed his opportunity and embraced a way of running a company better suited to rocks and mining, than people and dynamic risk. For a man so preoccupied with inclusion and acceptance, Qantas is a poor model. Sadly, he has little to show, personal fortune aside.
Ask anyone at Southwest about Herb Kelleher and their feelings are almost universal: His respect for people, his responsibility for their well being is reciprocal, each employee values the company as if it is their own.
Ironically for companies like Qantas, hell bent on division, fear and anxiety driven compliance, this adversarial approach costs far more than genuine concern for the people that make the company.
Mr Joyce would not venture far from Coward street (pun intended) without a security detail. That for him is a sad testament to a decade (almost) 'running' the company
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Airline fundamentals are fundamental for a reason: They ensure longevity. A big component of CEO responsibility enshrined in statute necessitates foresight to remove strategic risk, thereby protecting the funds on whose behalf you act; the shareholder.
this adversarial approach costs far more than genuine concern for the people that make the company
Ironically for companies like Qantas, hell bent on division, fear and anxiety driven compliance
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'There's no one': pilot sickness, faults stretch Qantas
By Matt O'Sullivan
Updated4 June 2018 — 3:57pmfirst published at 2:57pm
Qantas’ fleet of A330 aircraft has been stretched to cover services over the past few days after two of the twin-aisle plane types suffered engine and flight control faults.
And in a sign of the pressure on crewing, a Qantas 747-400 jumbo bound for the Chilean capital of Santiago from Sydney with a full load of passengers narrowly avoided being cancelled on Sunday when a replacement for a sick pilot was found in the nick of time.“Scheduling is desperately seeking a first officer or suitably qualified [right-hand seat] captain to crew the QF27,” a Qantas manager of base operations wrote in an “urgent request” to pilots fewer than three hours before the jumbo was due to depart Sydney.
“All standby crew have been used and SMS messages sent plus management pilots contacted. There’s no one. The flight is likely to be cancelled.”
The urgent email request was sent about 2½ hours after the company fired off a text message to well over 100 pilots to see if anyone was available to step in.
The Qantas jumbo eventually took off on the 12-hour flight to Chile about 45 minutes late.
While a sign of strong demand for flights, pilots say the airline’s high utilisation of aircraft is placing pressure on crewing. And it also raises the likelihood of disruptions to flights when aircraft encounter significant technical problems.
All standby crew have been used and SMS messages sent plus management pilots contacted. There’s no one.
Qantas manager of base operations
On Friday, a Qantas A330 bound for Bangkok turned back to Sydney Airport shortly after take off when one of its two engines suffered a “high vibration event”.
The plane circled Sydney before landing safely about an hour after departing. Passengers on QF23 were later put on a replacement plane bound for Bangkok, but the affected A330 remains grounded at Sydney to allow for the engine to be replaced.
And late on Friday night, another Qantas A330-300 bound for Hong Kong was forced to remain on the ground at Brisbane Airport due to a flight-control malfunction, resulting in a three-hour delay.
“Due to the increased utilisation and complexity in the A330 network, I would expect there to be ongoing delays for the next few days due to these two events,” Qantas’ deputy manager for Airbus fleet operations told pilots in an email on Saturday.
“This is unfortunately going to result in some roster disruptions.”
The senior manager said the A330 engine’s “high vibration event” above Sydney on Friday bore similarities to an engine problem on an aircraft departing Brisbane recently.
“We will be investigating the cause and provide information to you as soon as possible,” he said in the note.
At the weekend, six international flights were delayed by an average of about three hours.
Qantas said in a statement that airline schedules were finely tuned and, while it had a level of redundancy to help recover quickly if an aircraft had unexpected technical issues or crew suddenly became unwell, it sometimes did cause delays.
“Qantas is undertaking one of the largest pilot recruitment programs in its history, with
150 pilots to be recruited into Qantas and QantasLink in the next financial year,” it said.
Qantas plans to open a pilot academy next year capable of training up to 500 pilots annually.
Qantas manager of base operations
On Friday, a Qantas A330 bound for Bangkok turned back to Sydney Airport shortly after take off when one of its two engines suffered a “high vibration event”.
The plane circled Sydney before landing safely about an hour after departing. Passengers on QF23 were later put on a replacement plane bound for Bangkok, but the affected A330 remains grounded at Sydney to allow for the engine to be replaced.
And late on Friday night, another Qantas A330-300 bound for Hong Kong was forced to remain on the ground at Brisbane Airport due to a flight-control malfunction, resulting in a three-hour delay.
“Due to the increased utilisation and complexity in the A330 network, I would expect there to be ongoing delays for the next few days due to these two events,” Qantas’ deputy manager for Airbus fleet operations told pilots in an email on Saturday.
“This is unfortunately going to result in some roster disruptions.”
The senior manager said the A330 engine’s “high vibration event” above Sydney on Friday bore similarities to an engine problem on an aircraft departing Brisbane recently.
“We will be investigating the cause and provide information to you as soon as possible,” he said in the note.
At the weekend, six international flights were delayed by an average of about three hours.
Qantas said in a statement that airline schedules were finely tuned and, while it had a level of redundancy to help recover quickly if an aircraft had unexpected technical issues or crew suddenly became unwell, it sometimes did cause delays.
“Qantas is undertaking one of the largest pilot recruitment programs in its history, with
150 pilots to be recruited into Qantas and QantasLink in the next financial year,” it said.
Qantas plans to open a pilot academy next year capable of training up to 500 pilots annually.
Sydney Morning Herald : 'There's no one': pilot sickness, faults stretch Qantas
Purely a resource management issue above nothing to do with a shortage in the greater sense.
KPI met elsewhere, disruption paid from some else's budget
KPI met elsewhere, disruption paid from some else's budget
Exceptional circumstances, highly unusual, never happened before, as is typical our magnificent staff rose to the occasion. Could I get a job in the spin department, I mean the PR department?
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It will likely turn up as ' narrative support' where legislative change is needed by Qantas to circumvent existing legislation.
Yeah don't know why a pilot would release it, probably straight outta IR
So Pete, your son has only one option for a decent flying job to advance his caree
But regardless, your mythical scenario doesn’t exist. There is never just one option to advance one’s flying career.
There may be only one which is a queue jumping, selfish, degrading decision for the entire industry... but there’s not one option.
What would I tell her? It’s a selfish, short term decision, from which you may get burned, and she’s a fool if she does it.
But she’s smarter than all that. I knew that when she chose never to get involved in Aviation.
But you keep on justifying the degradation of the industry and self prostitution with fictional scenarios
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