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It always AMAZES me how the number of management post's are linked directly to how close EBA negotiations are.
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For those looking for validation that the pilot shortage is down under....
A rumoured stoush is brewing between Qantas Airways limited and Sydney Airport over the rising cancellation rates.
Citing media stories regarding the shortage, it is rumoured that Sydney Airport are concerned that a growing cancellation rate shows no signs of abating.
Naturally, the operators of the best monopoly airport in the South Hemisphere have little interest in social responsibility and are more inclined to screw the populous, just because they can are concerned.
Concerned that flight cancellation rates are increasing and now beginning to impact aeronautical revenues (take offs, departures and gate use etc) dialogue is reportedly being established with Fort Fumble...
If the rumours are true and Qantas are now beginning parking the 737 fleet, one wonders where the surplus aircraft could be hidden? Early money may well be on Avalon Victoria. (camouflage nets optional)
A rumoured stoush is brewing between Qantas Airways limited and Sydney Airport over the rising cancellation rates.
Citing media stories regarding the shortage, it is rumoured that Sydney Airport are concerned that a growing cancellation rate shows no signs of abating.
Naturally, the operators of the best monopoly airport in the South Hemisphere have little interest in social responsibility and are more inclined to screw the populous, just because they can are concerned.
Concerned that flight cancellation rates are increasing and now beginning to impact aeronautical revenues (take offs, departures and gate use etc) dialogue is reportedly being established with Fort Fumble...
If the rumours are true and Qantas are now beginning parking the 737 fleet, one wonders where the surplus aircraft could be hidden? Early money may well be on Avalon Victoria. (camouflage nets optional)
A fair few of those cancellations are due to ATFM restrictions at MEL and the restrictions imposed by single runway ops at SYD.
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Cancellations must be happening everywhere but places like Singapore , Dubai and Hong Kong the airlines may have a bit more leverage over airport management ? Appears not to be the case in Sydney .
Surely specific aircraft are not actually being parked? I expect that the equivalent reduction in hours (900-1200 per month) would be spread throughout the fleet with every hull doing 4% less work per month.
I had to laugh at the suggestion of using widebodies on domestic. Which aircraft? Parked on which gates? Both are in critically short supply already, and you cannot make a case for flying a new widebody only nine hours a day. And if you pay 5.5 hrs credit for three hours of flying then your pilot supply problem only improves incrementally. And congestion in this country is a political, not technical, problem.
I had to laugh at the suggestion of using widebodies on domestic. Which aircraft? Parked on which gates? Both are in critically short supply already, and you cannot make a case for flying a new widebody only nine hours a day. And if you pay 5.5 hrs credit for three hours of flying then your pilot supply problem only improves incrementally. And congestion in this country is a political, not technical, problem.
Oh. Oops.
Yeah, that old common-sense gambit, eh INTBH? I heard recently that ANA ordered some new build 767s. Given the similar geometry of our domestic network such a thing would actually be closer to meeting our needs than we currently employ.
The -321 might also be a viable alternative, especially given that wee-man ordered 10e6 of them for JetStar.
The -321 might also be a viable alternative, especially given that wee-man ordered 10e6 of them for JetStar.
Yeah, that old common-sense gambit, eh INTBH? I heard recently that ANA ordered some new build 767s. Given the similar geometry of our domestic network such a thing would actually be closer to meeting our needs than we currently employ.
The -321 might also be a viable alternative, especially given that wee-man ordered 10e6 of them for JetStar.
The -321 might also be a viable alternative, especially given that wee-man ordered 10e6 of them for JetStar.
Isn’t that supposed to be what Boeing are aiming at with the 797?
rapacious plundering
ABC news story clearly held over to a quiet- news Sunday. The old chestnuts of pillaging, poaching and even rapacious plundering of “their pilots”.
Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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ABC news story clearly held over to a quiet- news Sunday. The old chestnuts of pillaging, poaching and even rapacious plundering of “their pilots”.
Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Australia is not exceptional, demographics there are as bad as the rest of the western hemisphere.
So pilot unions in Australia ought start delivering for their members. Delivering those things surrendered in the decades where supply exceeded demand....
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So pilot unions in Australia ought start delivering for their members. Delivering those things surrendered in the decades where supply exceeded demand....
It is a training pipeline problem...not a problem finding bums for seats. Yes, the US as well as China, the Middle East and other less desirable locations are hurting. Australian majors? Not so much. (Despite the airline Press Releases that are regurgitated as 'news')
I hope I'm proved wrong one day by the change in MO by the HR departments. The termination of psychometric tests, behavioural interview questions and cringe-worthy group exercises in favour of pilot qualification and experience assessment, simulator evaluations and reference checks.
This, coupled with increased remuneration offers and substantively better work/life balance contracts placed desperately on the table by management might mean the pilot shortage had arrived at our shores.
I sincerely hope I live to see it...but I won't hold my breath.
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The only spare capacity in Qantas and I say that tounge in cheek is the 747 especially with it coming off Bne/Lax. But, OJT needs a C check in October so instead of doing it ie short term pain long term gain we shall send it to the desert. Then there’s OEB not due for a check till September next year but what the heck it can go in Feb/March. The lunatics think that in one bid period they will have unclogged the sausage machine and all will be well. ������������ might fly.
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"Broken" is a word I hear multiple times a day, it does not matter which department the utterance is in reference too.
"Terminal Decline" has become a self-fulfilling prophecy through stripping training & investment out of the business in order to buy back shares and levitate the share price for today. Tomorrow is arriving too quickly for management to cope.
"Terminal Decline" has become a self-fulfilling prophecy through stripping training & investment out of the business in order to buy back shares and levitate the share price for today. Tomorrow is arriving too quickly for management to cope.
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Whilst I have no doubt your in a better position to comment on the situation PG many of the things your saying that will be indicators are already occurring. Although when it comes to HR I think the cringe worthy questions etc is just the deluded world they live in and will continue forever more in this industry and every other.
China is so short of pilots that there literally is no interview. If you pass the medical, written exam, flight test and line training then you have the job. The nearest thing to an interview is checking to make sure your documents are in order.
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then next minute find yourself doing a touch and go on the grass.
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