Alliance on job hunt as tourism recovers

BRISBANE-BASED Alliance Airlines is bucking the worldwide aviation trend and actually recruiting more cabin crew as its business takes off.

The airline has called for applicants to fill up to 12 positions in coming weeks and expects many high-quality staff could apply to join its ranks of cabin crew as hundreds of workers are stood down from roles with other airlines.

Alliance chief executive Lee Schofield said it was a privilege to be able to offer work in the industry, which has been decimated.

He said the airline had more fly-in, fly-out work coming and ticket sales for seats on its new tourism-focused routes between Canberra and Queensland had been strong.

It will also start flying from Canberra to the Sunshine Coast and Cairns.

“These roles aren’t for a specific route. Across the board we are pretty busy and we’ve got more work coming down the pipeline, which means we need some more people,” Mr Schofield said.

He said it was imperative the industry worked together to encourage the removal of border restrictions.

“The strength of our business mainly is in the fly-in, flyout sector but there (are) a few little pockets we are doing and we certainly have already seen the improvement in tourism within those pockets,” he said.

“Our services to Maroochydore and Cairns from Canberra — early sales of those have been fantastic.

“Everyone has accepted that international travel isn’t coming back any time soon but there are some wonderful domestic locations.”