Sam Ting Wong
I have accepted market forces and have given up the fight.
What I fail to understand is that we were never able or willing to take a stand all those years ago and monetised the best supply and demand situation I have seen in 40 years of aviation.
And I am not talking about us accepting our 30
pieces of silver in return for your measly 4% and thereby capitulating the best negotiating position in decades.
In short: I am not talking about now, I’m talking about then.
For now, I wish you all the best with your market forces. I’m allright Jack and at least I tried. Funny old thing: I too spent hours and hours in dispatch in the middle of the night “waiting” for delayed and cancelled flights.
95% of the time with all my friends: me, myself and I.
When the other guy(s) showed up at the new report time, they NEVER appreciated the “education” regarding cc.
THAT’S the uselessness of the membership and pilot body I am referring to.
(And don’t even get me started on our “friends” who were “forced” into training or broke the tb.
May their names and careers be tarnished for good!)
Hence we were never able to capitalise on our “strong” position.
Management know our weaknesses and are VERY capable of capitalising on those, hence their paycut only lasts one year and is a mere 15%.
I tried to put my 2 cents in and failed.
I can only hope the next generation can learn from our failure(s) to stand up for ourselves, but I won’t hold my breath.
Can’t really blame them: My generation didn’t exactly lead by example.
Had a good run and enjoyed a lot of it though.