Article claiming new non financial perks for Alliance crews
I’ve been thinking about the Seniority system and agree it’s a noose around Pilots necks, it almost eliminates mobility and it extremely bad for bargaining power. It’s a Catch 22 though as to remove the seniority system there would be cries of anger from the senior pilots. I’m in a seniority system, but me and the missus have agreed I’m Gonski at 60 which is just over 10 years away, I’m going to leave QF at 55 and go the contracting jobs F them, and if it doesn’t work out so be it I have a UTE, tinny and a house, that will do me!
Imagine a 'merit based' promotion system being transparent and limited in its ability to be abused. Ah huh....now back to reality.
How do you measure merit when you're all the same, except years of service and hours in the logbook. In a commercial airliner you all operate the same, that's the whole purpose of sops. If you are different you won't be there very long whether or not that happens to be a better different. For those that think offer more than just doing your job, then that becomes expected, that is the cause of the problem and you created it.
Last edited by Xeptu; 17th Aug 2022 at 20:56.
This side of the ditch, that's known as "The Three Bs (Beach house, BMW & Boat)" and also as the The Death of Entrepreneurship.
Very many small business owners think and act like "I've got the 3 Bs, why work hard any more?"
Very many small business owners think and act like "I've got the 3 Bs, why work hard any more?"
How do you measure merit when you're all the same, except years of service and hours in the logbook. In a commercial airliner you all operate the same, that's the whole purpose of sops. If you are different you won't be there very long whether or not that happens to be a better different. For those that think offer more than just doing your job, then that becomes expected, that is the cause of the problem and you created it.
Alliance were never great payers going back to the Flight West days. Not a bad job if you want to move off turbo props and get some jet time, or you'd already got cashed up overseas and wanted to come home, but it wasn't a great long term career option.
Has the crewing problem got anything to do with pilot not being advertised on their careers page or seek? I'm no HR whizz, but advertising is usually a solid start point.
