Originally Posted by
Sunamer
Why would you give companies more arguments for automated airplanes, I have no idea. What is the point of strikes, if you can change an employer and weed out the most corrupt, less effective ones that way?
By doing that, you actually hit where it hurts, while by striking you hit those who have no relation to the company.
pilots could, as you said, grow a backbone, but realise - it is a free market, and the more of an unpredictable expense you become to the company, the more they will think about removing that random variable from their business equation.
Well drones and automated systems cost nothing apart from maintenance and updating software, not to mention the adequate technology doesn't currently exist in the civilian world. Should we just keep allowing the reduction of pay and working conditions in aviation until we are all charity workers?