Originally Posted by
vikdream
It is fairly clear that TC's have deteriorated over the years, but reducing that to paying a TR or not is fairly unfair. Cadets pay an absolute fortune to join BA and yet they are take pride of their jobs. Iberia new joiners are starting to pay their TR and yet they fly the national flag carrier prouder than ever.*
As far as I am concerned, Vueling will soon sign a new Collective Labour Agreement that put them in line with other major airlines in terms of TC's. Potential earnings might even be higher than in the national flag carrier, so I am not sure whether putting the TR payment in the equation will make Vueling look as a "bad place to be".
"Race to the bottom" was accepting to be paid solely by duty or flight time or other major catastrophes that have occurred in the industry. If paying for TR was so cruel we would have to go back to the days where MCC started to be required by the airlines, even to the date in which the first pilot self-funded his or her studies. Most of us have, but we do not complaint about that even if it the ATPL is 5x times more expensive (usually) than the TR itself.
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El problema no es Vueling, el problema es la politica de contratacion que sigue Vueling, las Iberias, etc...
La gran diferencia entre pago de un ATPL/MCC y una TR: sin el segundo no se tendrian que invertir los ahorros de media viva cada vez que se tenga que cambiar de trabajo.
Mientras muchas compaņias "convergen" hacia los bonds o supresion de dicho pago -Ryanair, que ya es decir-, otras se empeņan en seguir ancladas en politicas oportunistas que no llevan a parte alguna (a la larga). De ahi lo del "race".
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