If I send an email to somebody I don't have much of a problem if they pass it on via the same means, but I'd really appreciate it if I don't see my stuff on pprune in the future.

I'm not really ticked, but just making something clear that obviously wasn't.

Thanks

Koru,

Let me publicly thank you for all you have done to help those of us who have a desire to move south. Hopefully someone learned something about etiquette.
BTW...next e-mail sent as you suggested.

Cheers,
JD

I need to toss in my two cents of appreciation for Koru too. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Someday soon, I'll be down there!

Ophir, E-mail sent...hope it helps.

Cheers,
JD

Thanks a ton!

Much shuffleing about at the moment. The latest vacancy note from flight ops is as follows; all of these are internal moves as far as I know, but you get the idea.

2 X B744 CA
3 X 744 FO
8 X B777 SO
4 X A320 CA
4 X A320 FO
4 X B733 CA

To clarify, thesae are psoitions up for bid and yet to be filled.

Just curious Koru, what is driving these internal moves?

Yeah, is this just the standard attrition rate? I would imagine not.

I think that this is mainly driven by the seat changes with the Freedom Air/Air NZ mainline merger as these are all internal positions. The B744 seats however are not (A320 driven that is).

We are still short on the B777 and I understand also on the A320, so when this all comes out in the wash we should see a fair bit of outside hiring again. That said, the hiring from outside has not really subsided until now anyway, so it all looks pretty good. I don't think we have seen any attrition as of late, and it will stay that way until these guy's start deciding that there is a life after Air NZ, at which time there will likely be a huge amount of turn-over (I think that something around 40-50% of the pilots are at least pushing 55, if not older).

There it is then.

Thanks for the added insight! I'm working on my stuff now. -C