What I can’t cop are pilots who are happy to take take the money, whinge continually about their employer and say they engage in some sort of guerilla warfare against their employer. If they are so unhappy why don’t they change employers or change occupations.Having a profession as an airline pilot is a wonderful opportunity in life. Why not enjoy it?
Perhaps it was Mr Maree
In the golden years following the cessation of hostilities in the Second World War, society got a "new deal".
That new deal saw stability in the economy, national interest and dare it be mentioned a degree of integrity in both professional and personal conduct.
That age is now behind us. Society has been hollowed out. The generational dividend has not prevailed and aviation is not immune.
An airline pilot may be similar in name to those already retired, but it has changed substantively.
The guerilla campaign to which you refer may in fact be a realisation: The board is stacked against the employee. The IR landscape both in Australia and in many European sovereigns is broken.
Airline pilots are professionals. They are among the few professions where negligence or even bad luck can kill them. Those sitting in the hallowed towers are not professionals.
The asymmetry in power relationship has destroyed amenity, work life balance and most obviously of all, remuneration.
To see the array of people, departments and resources aligned against airline operating staff is both scary and amazing. At war with itself describe many airlines.
There are, Mr Maree, two sides out there, but only one of them plays cricket.