Big news for TWU cabin crew members.

We’re applying to vary the Cabin Crew Award to substantially lift crew pay and conditions across the board.

What’s the Cabin Crew Award?

Cabin crew Enterprise Agreements, which set pay and conditions, are underpinned by the Cabin Crew Award – a set of standards that all companies employing cabin crew must adhere to as a minimum. But the pay and conditions in this Award have fallen behind through:

• Gender undervaluation
• Increase to work duties and responsibilities without changes to pay

What we’re doing

We have the ability to apply to change the Cabin Crew Award through the Fair Work Commission – our workplace tribunal.

If our application is successful this would lift pay and conditions of all cabin crew right around the country.

Our application

We’re calling for not just substantial increases to cabin crew pay, but improvements to conditions like duty hours which crew have said are significant issues at work.

We’re also applying for:

See how we’re improving standards across the aviation industry.