The young overthrow the old Norman.
What started off as a 'low-cost revolution' by companies like easyJet and Ryanair is now repeated by other companies in either their extreme fight for survival or for expansion of market share. Or both. It's exactly the way 'two-bit' airlines like EZY and FR started off 10-15 years ago: by undercutting their competitors.
Just look at T&C's in general in this industry. In the old days you had the full package: benefits, free type rating (perhaps bonding) and good pay. Then came the low-costs and gone was the free type rating and benefits. What was left was just good pay. And now companies like Astraeus are even cutting that paycheck. Why? Simply because they get away with it! just like EZY and FR got away with TRSS and Cadet schemes in the past. So now project that trend vector forward a few years during a recession...
Pandora's box was opened by the low-cost airlines and their loyal and blind supporters, and now people are moaning that they see their T&C's eroded, start screaming about "a threat to the industry" and "if ever there was a time for protecting pay and conditions this was it." It's something I've been hammering on about for years, but people preferred to look the other way.
It's too late now though! The thin edge of the wedge (which once gave EZY pilots an advantage over the established airlines) is in place and is now slowly threatening your paycheck, so don't cry crocodile tears now Norman, just because you fear you might get a taste of your own medicine.
p.s. The grass
is greener outside EZY!
