QF LHR Base....Legal Issues
 

An informed source suggests that QF has despatched members of its Sydney Based legal team to LHR.
There are difficulties with Her Majestys Customs,overseas arrests and theft of company stores.
Other problems relate to the illegal importing of commercial quantities of cigarettes.
These idividuals are not bonded to the business and generally dont care if their employment is terminated.
We are here for a good time not a long seems to be the general position.
On a more lascivious note...
some lucky Second Officers are getting to chop up some of the young lovelies from LHR during their rostered breaks inflight.
Accordingly the rear upper deck TC rest is now known as "the chopping room"

Surfside

I understand this is a rumour network but how solid is this information?

The reason I ask this is because we all know that the LHR base is not a happy subject with Australian crew and rumours tend to be thick and fast.

Those other incidents sound like the old rumours that did the rounds in the first year of the base.

Is any of that new or just the same incidents getting new life?

The cigarette thing is old news - happened over a year ago AFAIK. I seem to recall some threatening piece of paper from Turd Towers reminding us all not to mess with HM customs.

As for the S/Os and the LHR lovelies - don't think other ranks haven't been there and done that, as I hear it.

About sending some legal people to LHR, it probably would take management that long to get organised.

This was more than 12 months ago now unless someone has done it again. Thai based crew from memory.

QF got what it paid for. A crew who provide (mostly) good service but who don't have any sense of loyalty to QF as a business, company or ongoing employment. Most freely admit that they won't be flying with QF in two years time and are just in it for the short term.

You must of heard of the old adage- It has been a succesful overnighter when:

1. The Second officer gets laid twice;
2. The F/O gets laid once; and
3. The captain has a bowel movement :eek:

Huh...That reminds me of an old joke someone told me..

What is the last thing a captain takes off before he has sex with a hostie?

The second officer!!!!!

Some people will do anything to get Australian residency...:E

Oh well someone has to do it....

It would seem the theft of a few minor items was all that was needed a little while back......:E

Ahhh you have to laugh and shake your head at fools
 

Another round of BS = Surfside

Cigs were Thai crew who are no longer employed.

What about the 2 Aus crew caught importing and traficing in Class A's in Aus airports in the last year???

How many Aus based crew sacked for stealing and assualt in the time of the LHR base. Do I have to remind you of the LA crew v tech crew punch up, NRT bashing by techie.

The list can go on and on, would you like to rehash gecko in LA with his 2 kg of nose candy etc.

1 LHR crew in 2.5 years arrested for a minor thing that was chucked out of court.

No sexual harrasment cases, no problems except the small minds of the few fools that must make up BS onboard and in any forum to hide there small lives.

Here we go surfside, got some news for you... SYD crew memeber arrested this morning on the QF31 and detained for commercial amount of cig suggling. Detained at airport!!!!!
Quick check it out....it's a fact

Just do your job small mind and we'll do ours:}

Sorry for this rant but 2.5 years of BS is starting to get "old hat" happy to cop the truth but had enough of out right lies.:ok:

Steady there, Haughney...

Some professions are in such short supply here in th'old country that Aussies are getting paid to come over & fill the holes!

There are several of us now running FTSE-100 companies and in Westminster and last year Australians were the biggest foreign buyers of UK property... the reverse-takeover has begun! :E

haughtney1........

"It would seem the theft of a few minor items was all that was needed a little while back......"

Ah yes the good old days....now you have to resort to really nefarious activities to get here.....eeeoohhh :yuk::yuk::yuk:

Winding ozzies up is almost as easy as beating the pom football team:}

There are more Kiwi's running FTSE-100 companies BTW:E

Thank you haughtney1
 

Coming from slave traders and pirates who built a crumbling empire on theft and third world exploitation .

I know who got the better deal for sure:p

Umbrella anybody!!!!!!!!!!

haughtney1...There are more Kiwi's running FTSE-100 companies BTW......

Thats exactly why the poms travelled so far in the first place because they wanted to get away....so do the kiwi's.

BTW sounds like a great summer over there at the moment.

If there are any Aussies on the base they must be looking forward to doing trips.

No wonder some of the girls are so desperate to try techies...... to try and get residency in Oz
...:E

I must have bucked the trend...I left NZ :p

I think thats what he was saying mate

but back to the old curly lhr base.how many of us are in the base now?

and how do the crew who came back think of the dud lhr trips we are left with?

boys and gilrs,the lhr base was set up for a reason and youve got to know that its never going to be a favourite because of that.so peanut,when you see rumours about the base chill out son.

by the way was that a rugby league scrum i saw here earlier?

In For A Penny
 

LHR Based Crews have also trashed a few hotel rooms and caused a particular hotel pool to be drained..... twice.
The theft of company stores is endemic.
We had a member of the QF Legal department on board and en route to LHR about three weeks ago.
Good to see Peanut Puncher is alive and still defending the indefensible
No One in mangement will ever admit the LHR base is a failure.
Talk to some LHR based crew on the fifth floor in HKG and you quickly gain the impression that the whole deal is about partying,rorting and bonking...sounds like the Sydney base in the early 70's.
Go for it guys...it wont last forever.
PS..What is the last thing a Qantas Captains wife does before she has sex? Drives him to the airport.
An oldy but still a goody

The Bases..The Reality
 

The LHR Base
The Cairns Base(Australian Airlines)
The BKK Base
The AKL Base
Qantas opens these bases and when their industrial usefulness expires so does the base.
Look at all the enthusiasm from Australian Airlines. ..it counts for nothing to those living in the Citadel(or Turd Towers if you will).
The BKK base has some of the best and hardest working crew.
The base will eventually close and those wonderful crew will be asked to work for JetStar(Asia)or be shown the door.
When the LHR base closes people like Peanut Puncher will be devastated.
Your loyalty is to be admired,but it is misplaced.
Qantas will show you no loyalty...you are nothing more than a tool.
Deal with this reality and it will save a lot of tears before bedtime

I understand and agree with what you say about loyalty or the lack of it Surfside.
However,as others have asked can you tell us how accurate and recent are those rumours?

The Problems Continue
 

The legal issues with LHR continue.
Management had hoped that as the base matured the problems would subside.
This has proven not to be the case.
The Customs problems have provided the basis for management concern.
While the infractions are smaller they are more numerous.
The cigarettes issue put the base on everyones radar.
The threats and the posturing has done little to improve discipline.
The theft of company stores has reached totally unacceptable levels.
The trashing of hotel rooms threatens accomodation contracts.
There are other issues which if posted here would open up a whole bucket of worms.
Lets not go down that road.
Time,the media and others will reveal all.