That’s the problem. You often don’t get better!
Singapore Airlines employees A LOT of foreign staff. They are definitely not all from Singapore. But they are all based in singapore
Absolutely. Speak to Jetstar staff. They sit in the staff rooms and listen to the Qantas staff have their whinges and just roll their eyes!
Because in the scheme of things these staff are still paid well. Its just Qantas staff are overpaid!
Bwah ha ha!
Don’t you get it??? That is exactly the plan. Jetstar is 100% Qantas owned and came out of the Impulse collapse. Qantas cleverly bought Gerry Mcgowan’s planes when his little Impulse enterprise was facing collapse. When they bought the aircraft they also negotiated to retain the staff and he took some pilots and crew for Qantaslink and kept reservations staff in Newcastle to handle Qantas frequent flyer bookings. This was genius on their part because it meant they also could then have staff on another set of conditions to their overpaid Qantas staff (of which I was one at the time). They then subsequently set up Jetstar using these conditions. Moved the ex impulse staff back to the low-cost carrier model.
At the same time they started getting rid of a lot of expensive to run non core businesses of Qantas such as the Qantas Travel Centres (bye bye my job!) and selling off Qantas Holidays, Qantas Frequent Flyer and all the other expensive little side businesses that they could think of. It has been my feeling for some time that we would see Qantas go and Jetstar pop up in its place. This action over the weekend just solidifies this.
Honestly, Im like a scorned lover though I would go back to working for Qantas in a heartbeat!! Even though they cut me loose. Most of this was because it was a great place to work, but lets face it, the money and the perks were probably the biggest thing that held me there. Following my redundancy I went back and worked in the same industry for a short time, doing the same job, for almost half the money! Obviously I moved on.... to the public service!
I have to agree that they honestly cant sustain these things in the face of strong opposition. It has come to crisis point and something has to give. I feel for the families of the staff but seriously the party couldn’t go on forever. They have to realise that the world of aviation and travel has changed and they have to get with the times.
That said Qantas have always been an arrogant company to deal with and this is just more proof of this.
WE the travelling public have fully been a party in this change. The moment we decided that in order to get those cheaps seats we would trade all the glamour of travel and carry on our bags rather than pay that extra $10 and we were happy to buy our drinks signalled the end for the collosol expensive dinosaur that is that red flying rat!
