Qantas to increase fleet utilisation

[Sprucegoose]

The constraints aren't known knowns anyway,

Known unknowns?

 

[jb747]

In 2022, each employee at Airservices Australia took 20 days (shifts) of 'unplanned leave' against 14 days as the median in 2019.

That's almost a 50 per cent increase in 'sickies', presumably fully paid.

So the fact that they're short staffed, in a high stress job, has nothing to do with it.

Some unions (CFMMEU is one) have been notorious over the years for organising such rorts so that overtime is maximised.

We get that you don't like unions, but this seems to be simply throwing mud at a wall.

If this is indeed the case, then even if Qantas' own operations have improved measurably, wouldn't third-party issues such as these prevent QF from increasing its fleet utilisation as planned?

Presumably you can fly outside of the Sydney-Melbourne route. I wonder if they actually have the crew to do much though.

Turnover of pilots - in QF branded group airlines (Eastern/Sunstate Q300/Q400, NJS 717/A220, Network F100/A320, Alliance E190 plus the Jetconnect NZ based pilots who fly 738) are suffering from a large turnover of crew, global pilot market is seeing lucrative contracts in the ME and Asia return plus opportunities like US Freight carriers also competing for labor. Plus the desire for many group pilots to eventually join mainline QF (which is 737, 787, 330, 380 and future 350 and 321) due better T&Cs keeps the ability for expansion in the other group airlines limited.

QF has historically made if very hard for pilots to move from the regionals to mainline, whilst results in many moving overseas.

Turnover of cabin crew, recent attempts to hire casualised flight attendants have not been fruitful, and the company has asked recently retired F/As to return.

Yes, it tried to get people whom they'd basically laid off to come back under much worse conditions. From what I hear they were not terribly successful.

 

[flyer89]

QF has historically made if very hard for pilots to move from the regionals to mainline, whilst results in many moving overseas.

This remains true today. The dangling of the carrot to see a few of your colleagues get gigs at mainline followed by literally years (if ever) on hold. It’s worked out well for the likes of Emirates and more recently operators in the USA though.