Fat Ass,
In what way has the IPG xxxxxed themselves? If you believe the rumor (which at this stage it is just that) then the pilots at Impulse have secured themselves the contract to crew over 20 new gen 737’s or A320’s. This will accelerate command upgrades for Impulse pilots and give them access to a far broader network of flying than previously available. Most importantly, it will give them a much more secure future enabling them to make solid plans – something that has been a sore point until now.
Do you really want to deny them the opportunity to make these gains?
Mr Nightmare,
If the novelty of flying a big jet diminishes, then I suggest you leave the industry. Your self-interested demand for more money thinly disguised as a moral stand to protect the “young pilot” is rather obvious.
The QF debate regarding the outsourcing of pilots is not new – it was a constant topic discussed in the cockpits of Ansett aircraft with reference to ANZ or worse – Freedom. The arguments put forth were the same. “How could you possibly survive on . . .”
Of course the argument was convenient to Ansett pilots then, as it is with QF pilots now, because the people so angrily against Freedom coincidently were the ones who would lose the most had ANZ used Freedom in Oz (something that would eventually have occurred).
These same people are now on the other side of the fence where the argument they once put forth so vehemently is now diametrically apposed to the set of circumstances they find themselves in.
Mr Nightmare, I suggest you would face exactly the same dilemma.