The slow bake

The so-called slow bake of Qantas started in earnest in February with the airline dismissing a claim from the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) that Qantas flightdeck crew job security is imperiled as “completely unfounded”, while warning that the pilots’ wage requests are not viable

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Qantas countered the initial parlay saying that the airline had “not made a pilot redundant in almost 40 years and there was no threat to the job security of our pilots”. A key sticking point from the outset was an AIPA demand that Jetstar crews were to be paid the same rate as Qantas pilots if the parent airline code-shared on a Jetstar flight.