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22.01.2022 One of the most important roles for Qantas and its pilots over the years has been protecting Aussies. Whether we're evacuating diggers from Vietnam or helping civilians affected by natural disasters and terrorism, the airline has become part of our national response infrastructure. AIPA is concerned that the role of Qantas as a truly national airline able to undertake these tasks is in decline. Once gone, this capacity will be almost impossible to replace. We've produced a new booklet, Serving the National Interest which includes many amazing first-hand accounts of the heroism of Qantas pilots and the importance for Aussies in crisis to see the flying kangaroo coming to the rescue. You can download the booklet at our website here: http://www.aipa.org.au/

16.01.2022 Today, Qantas announced an historic net loss of $224 million over the past financial year. You can read our response in the media release below: Qantas management must face stern questions over historic loss Qantas management needs to face stern questions about the decisions that contributed to today’s historic loss announcement, according to the Australian and International Pilots Association. Obviously Qantas faces a challenging set of circumstances that have contributed t...o today’s disappointing result. However there is no denying that this airline could be doing much, much better if it had enjoyed good management over recent years, AIPA President Captain Barry Jackson said. Investing in modern aircraft, like the fuel-efficient 777, would have drastically cut Qantas’s fuel bill. Fuel makes up roughly a third of total costs for Qantas, so chipping into this would have had a significant effect on the bottom line. Meanwhile, poorly thought-out attempted ventures in Southeast Asia have sucked desperately needed funds from the group. Roughly this time last year, Mr Joyce called a press conference to announced ‘Red Q’, a new premium airline to run out of Singapore or Malaysia. It coincided with a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign lauding the ‘New Spirit’. A year on and these have been discarded and proven to be giant wastes. Similarly the failed experiment in Vietnam with Jetstar Pacific must have sucked huge amounts of money from Qantas Group. Unfortunately management has not made clear exactly how much. The unnecessarily militant approach to industrial relations last year, culminating in a catastrophic decision to ground the fleet, did massive damage to the once untouchable Qantas brand. Staff engagement is at all-time low, along with profits. This, unfortunately, has flow-on effects to all aspects of the business. And Mr Joyce unfortunately seems to be continuing with a strategy to sheet home all the blame to the ‘international division’, as if this is a segment which can be neatly annexed from the rest of the business. This approach ignores the fact that an effective international division is needed to feed into domestic and, just as importantly, to support the Frequent Flyer program, which is supposedly the most profitable division of the company. Mr Joyce is also pursuing a plan to shrink international flying to a husk, which will badly damage the long-term prospects of the airline. Qantas pilots stand absolutely willing and able to work with management to return Qantas to success. We urge Mr Joyce to re-engage with staff and recognise that they are part of the solution, not the problem. That is the only way we can move forward from today’s result. See more

12.01.2022 As usual Crikey has some interesting insights into the new Emirates deal: http://blogs.crikey.com.au//qantas-is-it-being-done-like-/

11.01.2022 AIPA comments on the Emirates deal in today's Australian: QANTAS pilots are reserving judgment on the new agreement with Emirates until they see details of aircraft retirements and redeployments. Analysts have suggested that Qantas would be able to retire Boeing 747s and redeploy some smaller planes as a result of the wide-ranging agreement, which will see the airline pull its European services out of Singapore, axe services to Frankfurt and fly to London via Dubai.... It will also restructure services to Asia now its schedule is not dependent on "kangaroo route" services to Europe. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline would increase dedicated capacity to Singapore and re-time flights to Singapore and Hong Kong to enable more "same-day" connections across Asia. Australian and International Pilots Association vice-president Richard Woodward said the association was assured by management yesterday that a decision had yet to be made on the fate of Frankfurt planes. "On initial inspection, we're quite positive in a sense that the airline is expanding operations to Dubai and places like that, and talking about increasing the premium product here in Asia," Captain Woodward said. "But as usual the devil's in the detail and we would be concerned if this agreement brought on earlier retirement of aeroplanes and thus shrank the international fleet at the expense of jobs for Australian pilots. "We will watch with interest. If it's good for the airline and the airline does expand and fills the gap, fine. But if it shrinks to become a regional feeder to Emirates we would be very concerned for the career prospects of our pilots." But Mr Joyce and Emirates president Tim Clark were confident yesterday that the deal would result in Qantas returning to growth as it gained access to new markets.

10.01.2022 AusALPA & AIPA President Murray Butt discusses pilot concerns about the security screening arrangements for aviation workers

04.01.2022 John Singleton gave a scathing assessment of Qantas management and marketing on Sky News today, and offered an alternative ad campaign. What do you think? http://www.skynews.com.au/video/