Originally Posted by
fly1981
I think your assessment of the cos18 pilot pool is incorrect. Sure, the SO’s employed could be considered ‘abinitio flying club’ pilots, the defo’s( and there are many of them) on the other hand have very relative experience, fill the gap quit nicely. The likes of EK/QR have been putting 35 year olds in the left seat of 380’s for years, with 5 years company experience, before that many were regional jet pilots, the only reason time to command at cx is what it is, is because historically the contracts have been so good, people don’t leave, it has absolutely nothing to do with experience required to do the job. once in the left seat, captains are ‘coining’ it, and guys in the right seat are happy to give up command at lower paying airlines, and wait their turn, knowing full well that their salary in the right seat is equatable to many smaller airlines captain salary’s. The age old argument of ‘grey beard’ experience being required to ‘do the job’ is obsolete, it is not, that fact has been proven by airlines all over the world. Your number in the seniority order this current day in age, especially as an expat, means nothing. Same goes for your experience, as long as it is relative, the job will get done.
I find the number of users advocating redundancy on this thread disgusting, I am willing to bet that many of those guilty are relying on their number in seniority to comfort themselves at night, well, you just keep telling yourselves that, Heaven forbid, if it does come
To redundancy I hope you are taught a lesson. Have some empathy .
No, what is truly disgusting to me is that individuals would join under POS 18 (or 20 or whatever) knowingly undercutting other pilots established in the organization (but apparently feeling entitled enough not to care) and when things made a (predictable) turn south (which is pretty typical of any airline industry) then expect those same people they had previously undercut to take a pay cut to save their jobs (rather than follow the layoff/recall provisions clearly delineated in any of the contracts). Completely contrary to the contract they knowingly signed. And then somehow finding a way to rationalize their snowflake entitled mentality.