Bla_Bla

my understanding is that is happening across the board, in all bases. having said that i would not be surprised if that is not the case.....

AJ is going to cut costs everywhere he can to fulfill his promise to shareholders of making AUD $ 500 million profit this financial year.
QF has made 280 million in the first half and since its his first year in the job he will make any effort necessary to achieve that ( 220 million for the second half )
ie: theres a trial in syd domestic of no more crew on reserve at the airport. sitting around doing nothing.. anyone hear anything ???
only home reserve ???


if how can that be possible if you have an outbound light load and a full inbound flight ? where will they get that xtra crew member ?\
its going to be a logistic nightmare, and as we all know when comes to things like that QF isnt the best example. ie: the raspberry fiasco . oopsie !

if anyone here that has already operated with 15 crew give us an insite as to how it was ?

ditzyboy

There will be no more afternoon airport reserve coverage. All very well and good - but what happens when 3-4 767s go U/S at 1930, as can happen? Whilst I can see that Qantas does not like to pay for Airport Reserves to drink coffee and watch evening television. Is that not part and parcel of running an airline - planning and allowing for all contingencies?

April Rosters
Where is everyone (well, SH full-time everyone) sitting at with rostered hours for April? I was rostered 121, yet people above and below me were rostered to only 107. Does that sound right? 14 hours difference seems excessive when getting paid the same amount.

twiggs

I'm still trying to figure out why they need 8 crew for 72 J/C on the upper deck of the A380.
Surely they could knock that down to 6 and help to solve the shortage of crew on that aircraft as well as contributing to cost saving at the same time.

ditch handle

It's an open secret that there are problems with the service in J/C on this aircraft. Removing a crew member would just cause more problems.

Many of these problems would simply disappear if those working on the aircraft had more in the way of experience. Both life and airline.

Those responsible for the ideological decision making at QF's cabin crew department will [hopefully] be in for some surprises this week.

For the sake of the airline they really do need to go........

jungle juice

Originally posted by twiggsWhy does it not surprise me that you would suggest that twiggs?
As ditch handle mentioned there are more problems with meal service on the A-380 than you can poke a stick at and someone here is suggesting to reduce the number of crew.From what I hear they could do with more crew to try and get the thing working but they would just get in each others way.
ditch handle is right also that if the crew had more experience and the company did not want to go for just the young pretty ones then there would be fewer problems to deal with.
Why not relax the conditions that classic crew (non QCCA) have to agree to before they transfer over.

twiggs

The problems occur with a full load, maybe not dissimilar to the Melbourne base QF9 and 10 problems.
I think they could cope if loads are down to 3/4 or less.

twiggs

I'm sorry that this is so hard to get your head around, but I am trying to make the point of reduced crew on the A380, in line with the 744 4 class, if projected loads are equally as low.

prunezeuss

Around Wednesday or Thursday there will an announcement made regarding the removal of around 100 senior Qantas execs.Among the names will be Grant,Taranto and Webster.
Joyce has taken the broom to the management workforce and it will hopefully generate improvements in morale and efficiency.

TightSlot

This seems a suitable time to close this thread and ask you all to discuss the upcoming announcement in the D & G Forums please.