Hey, I'll do it at a great discount for $1m!

You mean B2 guys sitting in the smoko room watching B1 guys trying to do their work........ Well who's fault is that?

Possibly the people that poo-pooed the idea of composite crews?

AWBC

Representing AMEs and LAMEs together is not a conflict of interest.
 

Sorry ALAEA Fed Sec, AME's will never trust the ALAEA to act in anyone's interest but LAME's. I don't recall you kicking up a stink when all of the Tech Officers from Aircraft Airworthiness were told their jobs would move to Sydney earlier this year. All the AME's would be for you would be headcount and dues! :mad:

The B2 work or the B1 work??
BH

Its official- Tullamarine is gone.

Vale & Condolences to those in Heavy. Best of luck.

Released to the ASX this morning

Qantas to consolidate Heavy Maintenance Facilities

I know a Bloke who reduced the Maintenance/Servicing costs on his car by about 60% :ok: saved him a lot of money :ok: but now he is always complaining because it breaks down all the time and is a death trap. :(

At least he can (usually) pull over to the side of the road and wait for help, hard to do with an Aircraft at 30,000 feet. :(

Just thinking that the timing is interesting about this announcement about Heavy,as it coincides exactly with Craig Thomson speaking in Parliament.

Guess which will have the greater front page coverage? And it probably won't be the poor Qantas workers,except maybe in Melbourne.

Why did the ALAEA sign an EA deal and not try for some job security at arbitration?

R U 4 Real
 

One of the biggest points pushed by the ALAEA at the last EBA was for job security. The company would not even consider it. This is all part of a much bigger and longer term agenda. It does not matter what we give them they will always ask for more. My belief is that, at best, most of us in QF engineering have a maximum of 2 years left before we are put out the door.

Closing Tulla, will be as successful as the closing of H245.

How many LAME's to loose there job's? How many LAME's in the country on 457 VISA's?

There is about another 250 jobs to go over the next 12 months at Qantas Defence Services with the government grounding the C130H fleet. In total that's a lot of aircraft trades out of work in a small industry in Australia.

QDS to lose 250 and about 600 in Tulla. The government has grounded the C130's. They're donating them to the Indonesian Air Force! Work that one out!

From the Press Release this morning.

Last time I saw an A380 (yesterday) it had its cowls open and a plethera of engineers around it. This is ops normal for A380 Line Maintenence.

I feel for the guys in MEL as I did for those when SYD Heavy was shut down.

A320 Skoda, are you saying the jobs that no one would take and were left for 457 visa holders are now good enough for you?

A320Skoda has a point: There's no longer a skills shortage, is there? So the 457 visa scheme will need to be looked into at some point. Or would you like to continue it and create a further surplus of skilled workers that will have to fight for work that doesnt exist which will not be of any benefit to anyone?

AWBC

It took me 40 hours to get to Dallas 3 years ago with Qantas from a scheduled Brisbane-Los Angeles flight because of serviceability issues. That was the last time I flew Qantas internationally. Seems like I won't be coming back to Qantas anytime soon to get confronted with more delayed departures and missed connections. Oh well...

I couldn't see a case for further 457 visas to be issued, but people will need to now accept lower wages as new ventures will not be as lucrative.