Qantas closes more bases, staff be damned

For a general manager who likes to pride about how important Qantas is “people ,, CEO Vanessa Hudson did a good job to annoy many.

He continued to play hardball about wages, but the brutal decision Close the bases of the airline in Hobart, Canberra and Mildura Until next April, the performer increases one step after a few months of consultation. Pilots, cabin team and unions are angry.

“This is a decision that will change life on the pilots and the cabin team, where their work is safe and making important decisions on this assurance and making important decisions on this assurance.

Three Qantas Pilot unions (Transportation Workers Association, Australian Airline Pilots Federation and Australia and International Pilots Association) showed that 68% of the affected pilots will be forced to take into account other employment if the bases were closed. Five -fifth He was already influenced by the latest Qantas base closures in Perth and Cairns.

“Qantas says it has changed, but this is the same old Qantas once again. Due to the impact of the affected employees on their lives, he provided extra financing and transition time, but he stopped admitting that his decision was wrong, McMillan continued McMillan

With a movement that comes only six weeks after Qantas, the lives of families are rising 90 million dollars fine Under the cover of the Covid-19 Pandemi, 1,820 personnel are illegally on the penalties. The figure increased the total correction of the deductions that break life to $ 210 million. In his decision, the Federal Court justice Michael Lee, Qantas’ın claimed that the allegation. He would be surprised how fast his fears were realized.

Empty words

While exporting His apology In response to the Hudson scandal, he said: “In the last 18 months, we have worked hard to change our way of working as a part of our efforts to rebuild confidence with our people and customers. This continues to be our highest priority because we are working to recover the lost trust.”

Now, a few talked pilots Crirase Hudson said he started playing empty -handed. “The pilot morale, my 20 -year experience is at the lowest level of all time,” one pilot said. “And this is after this [former CEO] Alan Joyce. “Another pilot joked that Hudson was a” area with a wig “.

“Qantas, Perth and Darwin and Cairns have previously closed bases in the last few years – some of these people have moved to Hobart and Canberra,” he said. Crikey.

Hudson, who remained from the ammunition and avoided any damaging confrontation optics, left the chief of Qantaslink Rachel Yangoyan and his deputies at the meetings yesterday morning. Yangoyan was in Hobart with the opposition most vocal While closing plans are known in recent months.

At the Hobart meeting, a participant said, “There was a significant return, and some pilots were very vocal about how their lives would be destroyed. Rachel and the administration seemed uncomfortable, but were firmly kept.” Crikey.

He had a usual turn from Qantas, hoping that the Yangoyan change would help the airline to ç providing a more reliable service for our customers ”.

Nevertheless, the closing means that a plane flew from Sydney or Melbourne to Canberra or Hobart, and a pilot or cabin crew has suffered or had an accident, there is no one on the ground to fill the gap in these small cities. And the plane can’t fly. Qantas understands this, so there are teams based on Singapore, London, Manila, Auckland and Phuket for international operations. This is where he faces real competition. However, in Australia, with the absence of a customer reinforced customer compensation plan, the virgin and comfortable duo can do well, as he wishes.

Red tail Qantas aircraft together cancels 3-4% per month and the long-term average is 2.2%. Unlike Qantas Spin, the pilots said that the high cancellation rates in Qantas and Qantaslink – which are above the fairy tales each month – only the crew will deteriorate because they were centralized in non -spare capitals in small smaller hubs.

However, the damage of personnel and customers to human and collateral – Each movement has become equal for the course in Qantas, where it is only related to money.

Regional Consolidation Easy Costs

Closes are part of a wider centralization project undertaken by Hudson to further reduce costs – its benefits flow to senior managers and shareholders instead of façade staff and passengers. Hudson, except for one of Qantas’s regional subsidiaries (National Jet Systems, Sunstate and East), yes, it comes together for cost savings – but the movement is delayed. Furthermore, the company’s pilots are trying to solve the problem of attracting regional services, which does not come out of the main line and lower wage than Jetstar without a career path to the main carriers. As part of consolidation, a way of the airline food chain is currently presented.

Another reason for consolidation was to crush A220’s slow promotion than the rugged, planned one and the breaking point of the airline. The crime of this was hosted by the National Jet Systems subsidiary in Adelaide. Hudson is eager to take Sydney’s control of the plane.

Qantas Insiders said there was an internal power struggle between the local boss Markus Svensson and Yangoyan on the A220 fleet. Yangoyan seems to win, because leaving new aircraft in a regional subsidiary not only brings more fuel -saving aircraft, but also significantly reduces the crew costs for Hudson.

Meanwhile, Perth -based network aviation was excluded from the consolidation for at least for now, because the timeline of replacing the ruined Fokker fleet exploded for a year. CriraseAdding more print to the percentage of assembly cancellation of the airline. For Hudson and its executives, some of the incentive plans are lucky to be for cancellation, but for timely performance.

Both A220 and his older brother A321xlr, the first finally started service last week With a lot of hoop (But a toilet down), soon international routes will fly. And here, he bites the only corridor jets for customers who need to get used to international flights from Southeast Asia and India and Japan. Qantas’s own red tailed, low -cost airline.