Geoff Dixon willing to negotiate pay deal with pilots
A report in The Australian sasy that Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon has said that the airline is willing to sit down and talk about negotiating a new pay deal with its long-haul pilots after the last proposal was overwhelmingly rejected.
More than 90 per cent of Australian and International Pilots Association members voted in a recent ballot on the agreement, with 76 per cent of those taking part rejecting the proposal.
Mr Dixon said he was disappointed with the response but said he did not expect it to result in industrial action.
“AIPA, the pilot union, is going to poll their members to really try to find out what they were thinking and what’s behind the pretty resounding knock-back and we’re doing the same,” he told The Australian at the delivery of the Airbus A380 in Toulouse last week.
“I think there are a lot of differing views within the pilot workforce on what they’d like.”
Mr Dixon said the airline overall had good relations with its pilots and he did not believe there would be an “industrial situation”.
He said the parties would have to sit down and negotiate again after what had already been a long process.
But he said there was a precedent for the rejection, with deals by Jetstar and Virgin Blue initially knocked back resoundingly by pilots.
“They all went back and they negotiated a deal and we’ll go back and we’ll negotiate a deal,” he said.
Union officials were surprised at the depth of the sentiment against the deal. AIPA president Ian Woods warned the company it needed to listen to the pilots after the deal’s resounding defeat.
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