Qantas Domestic - Wannabes & Recruitment

[FrancesKate]

Hi everyone,

I applied for long haul Melbourne base back in 2008 and went through all the stages including reference checks etc... THEN all the Qantas fiascos happened and recruitment was put on hold.

Qantas rang me up last week to see if I was interested in flying domestic and coming to the recruitment day. I was unable to make it and they said just come along tonight to the CANDIDATE EVENT.

Am I in the same boat as anybody else? I have to bring along ASIC security forms etc. Does anyone know what this candidate event is?

Regards,

Frances

[cheekydingo]

Candidate Event / Franceskate

Hi Franceskate,

Do you mind shed us some light.. what it is actually "candidate event" is ? If you going tonight, let us know what it is .. ???

Thanks !

[FrancesKate]

Hi Cheeky Dingo,

No worries, will let you know! I'm hoping its a good thing... I've been waiting for 2 years!!!!!

[viipii]

Hi FrancesKate

Thanks for sharing with us. I'm hoping it's good news for you too

[firyice]

Hi FrancesKate,

I too was at the Mel Candidate Event. What a process!! I was quite surprised at the end when we didn't even have to provide the documentation. I wish they could have provided more definite answers to when recruitment starts. I guess we've already been waiting 2 years, whats another couple of weeks?

[FrancesKate]

Hi Firyice,

I am a little confused as to why they needed to see us! But glad I went along... you are so right... what is 2 more weeks when we have waited 2 years! (let's hope we find out one way or the other)

Good luck!

p.s to everyone else, the event tonight was a 'meet and greet' for all the people who had been on hold for 2 years from last recruitment drive.

[cheekydingo]

firyice

Hi Firyice,

What is "candidate event' ? did you attend it ?

[Gucci77]

Perth QF

Hi everyone, I have been invited to Perth assessment day on Friday coming up 8.30am. Can any body tell me what does the day involve. what is the next stage if you are successful? any body knows how much you get paid for QF domestic? Appreciate your help! And good luck to those applying. Flying is great did it for 10 years. Love it! Gucci

[viipii]

Hi Gucci77

I recently attended the recruitment day in Sydney. From 8.30am until 11am we got grouped together and did introductions and then two group game/assessments.

There was also a Q and A session before lunch. Then they sent us away for 45 mins and texted us to say whether we made it through to stage two, a panel interview. The panel interview consisted of four or five standard behavioural questions.

They mentioned salary in the Q and A and I think they said 34k (plus some allowances), and 27k for ground school. But I'm not 100% sure, so if someone has a better memory than me feel free to correct that.

Hope this helps.

[Gucci77]

Thanks thats great.
So first day is a whole day thing?
Salary is pretty small then. $34,000?

Gucci

[firyice]

Hi everyone,

For those of you who are curious about the pay etc...its best to read over their EBA. A couple of pages back a link was provided to obtain this:

Go to webpage Home | Fair Work Australia
From the 'Fair Work Australia’ tab (located top centre of the page)
Select 'Agreement' (top left of the page)
Click 'Find an agreement'
Type in 'QANTAS DOMESTIC PTY LIMITED CABIN CREW WORKPLACE AGREEMENT 2008' into the title bar
Then click search.

All the info you need is there but a quick run down: Trainee FA wage is 29,244.79 and FA wage is 36,596.79. This goes up by approx $1k/yr. Apparently this includes compensation for grooming, uniform maintenance, etc.

There are other allowances that you are also entitled too depending on your duty hour, incentive pays, etc.

I hope this sheds some light on the wage matter.

The candidate event was a meet and greet as FrancesKate said but it still felt like an interview with a group activity thrown in. I've been going over my every move/word in my head and don't know what to think anymore. Good luck to those that attended and hope to see you in the skies soon.

[Gucci77]

qanats -perth

Thanks guys for all details about salary, wow really its relatively small salary.
$36,500 its not a lot at all. Considering you work a lot as a crew. Strange always thought QF was paying more.
Anybody knows if they have direct entry cabin crew manager? How can you get to that position?

thanks!
Gucci

[LoveFlight]

I had my recruitment day in Perth on the 06.03 (and got through to the panel interview), now Im hearing that there will be another one this Friday the 19th?

I still haven't received a call for referee checks or anything!

I am nervous now .... does this mean they were not happy with my group or do they just need more people?

Does anyone know?

Ps. If anyone was at my recruitment day and has been called could you let me know.

Thanks

[Gucci77]

Perth QF

I heard they need a lot of people!! Did they mention anything on the day about direct entry to cabin crew manager? or how you can become one ? any news on trips from Perth?

THANKS
Gucci

[LoveFlight]

Hi Gucci,

Yay that doesn't make me feel as nervous. They actually didn't tell us much in regards to cabin crew managers or trips from Perth. We had a brief Q&As talk but all the questions were regarding cabin crew and a typical working week. Sorry I can't be of much help, but I did find this from the Aircraft Cabin Crew Award 2010.

Part 4—Minimum Wages and Related Matters
18. Classifications and minimum wages

[Varied by PR991554]

18.1 The classifications and minimum wages for an adult employee are set out in the following table:

Classification

Minimum weekly wage

Cabin crew member
624.80
Cabin crew supervisor (narrow-bodied aircraft, four or more crew)
733.20
Cabin crew manager (wide-bodied aircraft)
860.80

cabin crew manager means a cabin crew member who is responsible for the supervision of cabin crew members and the management of all cabin activities including supply and delivery of in-flight product/entertainment in conjunction with overseeing customer and crew safety, and initiation and performance of emergency procedures when necessary onboard aircraft. And also performs duties associated with arrivals and departures of aircraft, as required.

[flyergirl]

Gucci77, the short answer is that there is no possibility to do this at this point in time.

[flitegirl]

The normal pre-requisite for promotion to CSM at Qantas short haul is four years of service in the Qantas group. (eg, this could include years of service with Jetstar or QantasLink)

[cheekydingo]

QF Cabin Award

Just to let you guys know as per the QF Cabin Crew agreement the weekly wage is approx $704/week, plus your o'night allowances and your Duty Travel Allowance.

[flitegirl]

There is no "overnight" allowance for short haul crew. The DTA payment is per hour from sign on to sign off at home port and is taxable for single day trips and tax free for multi-day trips. DTA is around $5. The applicable band payment is also payable for each duty hour credit, IPD pay applies for any hours worked over 120 in the rostered month, and overtime for a duty day over 8.5 hours.

[Flapping]

Salary

Seems to be abit of a taboo subject here. No one seems to want to give definite direction of what one can take home as a crew. everyone knows the basic salary package which is about $37K. But when added with all the flying allowances, although it varies every month, what would one expect to get yearly, $55K - $60K ??

even at the Q&A sessions, they only tell you the basic salary which is about $37K and at training its a little less then they quickly move to another subject.