Well the NWK COO has world domination planes and has sold his grandmother multiple times to get higher on the greasy pole.

A couple of hundred A320 guys and gals from Tiger looking for a new seat too.

yep, no reason why they couldn’t slap the JQ paint on there and do that too.

Anyone know if the Network folks got a pay bump for flying the A320 or are they doing it on F100 rates?

That will need some good spin in the Press Release, I can see it now-

“The A320 has superior airfield performance to the 737 to utilise the short runways found at captial cities on the East Coast, particularly with global warming becoming a bigger consideration each year.”

All these world domination plans.....

.....on aircraft that are JQ’s hand me downs near the end of their service life. Seeing out their days before retirement performing low density FIFO charter in beaten down old aircraft that are apparently going to be used for high density RPT which requires near perfect dispatch reliability.

Now if NW were getting brand new 320s straight off the production line I’d say these theories had some substance, until then it’s all baseless speculation.

Wouldn’t there be a branding issue? There is a reason Network aircraft have LINK painted on the side of them

I was told by an ex Network pilot that they are flying the A320’s for F100 pay - they weren’t organised enough to insist on a higher pay scale.

These JQ hand me downs are younger than plenty of QFs 737s (2004/5 builds).

I wouldnt call the speculation completely baseless (albeit still speculation).

First they were just getting 2 A320’s, then 4, now 9.

I think there’s a chance they’ll start flying them on thin interstate routes (PER-ADL/CNS/DRW/CBR) especially during their down time on the weekends and it will grow from there.

Who’s to say they won’t end up with some newer frames in the not too distant future? Only time will tell!

You forget that many of us predicted that every F100 was going to be replaced by an A320. There is nothing new in this strategy.

But are F100s being retired?

my reading was that these are additional airframes, but I could be wrong

Not true at all. You merely have to prove the ‘employer’ is willing to offer you lwop. You don’t have to be on it before you apply.

Some good FUD campaign assistance here

good job :yuk::rolleyes:

The A320 pilots get a pay increase via an allowance over the EA rate that the F100 guys get paid, so the ex-Network pilot was not correct.

As the F100s age (some are close to 30 years and this was after Fokker went under way back in 96) they’ll fly less and less. Resale ain’t worth much so they’ll remain “on the books” but probably just be used for spares.

Nothing like a good thread drift......

How Notwork getting clapped out JQ and JSA A320’s amounts to world domination I fail to understand. As far as I understand, the 4 they have are doing exactly what they said they would do.
Last I checked, WA was going gangbusters with record iron ore prices.

Back to the popcorn and chips....

to bring it back on thread, the 32 positions at network are 32 less redundancies that would be required from elsewhere in the group. So that’s a positive

There must be redundancies fast impending maybe starting with JQ crew with all the town halls scheduled from Wednesday. Guessing an ASX Wednesday morning

someone says that every time there’s a townhall :)

I don’t think there has been 4 in one week organized tho.

I count 3, but yes, more than usual.

The JQ one being first takes the sting out of that idea I think. If it were an announcement as big as more redundancies it would come straight from AJ at the QF townhall first.

It’s only been 5 weeks since they announced the 6000 redundancies, they have barely scratched the surface of processing those.

I wouldn’t read too much into the pilot dial in, probably just an update on the potential Flexi line arrangements.

since the start of COVID, I count no less that 37 QF/JQ town halls and chief pilot dial ins, it could just so happen that these 3 have fallen in the same week, as they have before.

But as always, I could be wrong.