Originally Posted by
rcoight
What is wrong with some of you people?
No-one said the Dr or Nurse should be paid less. Get over it.
They have to be very well qualified and experienced. And, IN THE PAST, so did the pilots.
I didn’t even get an interview until I had well over 4000 hours, and that was all proper IFR charter, not buzzing around the circuit for most of it.
Because of the pilot shortage and the fact that a lot of RFDS pilots have walked into an airline job paying far more money, the RFDS has - rather than look after their existing pilots - simply lowered their requirements.
That is a very bad idea for a lot of reasons. Not least of which is that the nurses are starting to get worried.
So do you know why the RFDS would allow this to go on?
Could it be that CEO's don't need/want to be responsible for increased costs during their watch which may be reflected on their CV, the ticket to their next job.? I would hate to think it was arrived at from an EBA.