Qantas plan to make about 100 pilots redundant
Jamie Freed

MASCOT: -- Qantas will make some of its pilots redundant for the first time in more than 40 years as part of a broader plan to cut 5000 jobs as the ailing carrier looks to return to profitability.

The airline on Tuesday asked captains and first officers of its ageing 767 and 747 aircraft for voluntary redundancy applications.

Qantas is understood to be seeking less than 100 redundancies among the 550 767 and 747 pilots in its workforce. Overall, the airline has about 2000 pilots in its mainline operations.

All of its 767s will exit the fleet by the first quarter of 2015 and the airline will retire six of its remaining 15 747s by the first half of 2016.

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/national/qantas-plan-to-make-about-100-pilots-redundant-20140513-zrbnd.html


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Somebody needs to make little Paddy redundant.

No doubt he's lined up for a massive yearly bonus, probably worth at least 25 767 F.O. packages.

Board of directors needs to be lined up.

Why not get rid of those "Use by Date" fat Hostesses and Drag Queens....That would be a good place to start. Then the service instead of rudeness might bring back the the paying customers....that supply the money to keep them in business.

Edited May 14, 201412 yr by weegee

Why not get rid of those "Use by Date" fat Hostesses and Drag Queens....That would be a good place to start. Then the service instead of rudeness might bring back the the paying customers....that supply the money to keep them in business.

I thought you were talking about United Airlines until I read the heading.......

The key is in the aircraft flown, The B767 is being phased out around the world. The pilot who flies a B767 is probably going to be older 45+. The same for the 747 fleet. They are likely at higher end of the seniority and pay scale. It is an expensive proposition to train and certify the pilots on the new generation AB 380 and B787. It takes time to do that, and Qantas started the training process years ago. From both the safety and financial perspective it makes sense to bring the younger pilots along, Why spend the money to train a 55 year old pilot with 5 years to go, on the AB 380 when a 35 year old with another 20-25 years is available?