Originally Posted by
Superman1
Please send me the directions to this utopian world!! Not sure you will find many a company like that these days..bit more like:
- No word credit card, you can pay out of your pocket and be reimbursed in a few weeks.
- Max accomodation $200pn. (Hope to get a 4 star) No EBA to guarantee 24hr room service or a gym.
- Purchase the cheapest fare of the day, LCC or not doesn’t matter if your doing a 16hr day trip.
- No allowance just a $80 max food claim per day.
Its not beer,skittles and lavish luxuries for everyone but pilots and you’d find most entry or middle management get paid far far less than yourselves with a lot more hours worked and similar disruptions. You’ve got it pretty good!
None of this is a discussion about remuneration.
The barriers to entry into an airline career as a pilot are far more onerous and expensive that that required to enter the airline industry in administration.
Thus, it boils down to science.
The science to demonstrate that there is nothing dangerous is this undertaking does not exist, the proposed "research" just paid for
PR and any discussion of remuneration is premature.
Perhaps the best summation is Captain Shane Loney's from Qantas.
"Qantas is proposing to fly some of the longest routes in the world and what we need is a scientific long-term study into the impacts on crew."-AIPA safety and technical director Captain Shane Loney
When the science supports the health of the crew, then discuss the conditions attached.