Enough is Enough
Why are we all putting up with this? CX have cut our contracts permanently due to covid, while other carriers have done it on a temporary basis until things improve. Some other carriers have now started to reinstate pre-covid terms. DFO has already stated that there is currently no need to change current packages as it is apparently competitive. I don't know how far his head is up his back side, but I would guess it is substantial.
We are being subjected to inhumane and obviously unfair conditions at present; testing on arrival (totalling on average 4hrs before getting home after blocks on, previously 60 mins), testing during our days off, extended duty patterns, 0.25 credit on PX-ing, closed loop flying totalling 4 or 5 weeks away from home ( with some crew doing their 5th loop currently), exposure to covid and hence the possibility of being quarantined for 3 weeks at a government facility (while likely dragging my family to quarantine too) and not being able to get time off to see my other family who live abroad. These are just some of the issues being faced by us, the frontline crew.
I understand other departments have issues they face too, but I am certain, nobody else faces the issues and threats we face when we go to work, and even on the days and weeks after we have finished a flight.
The expectations of crew keeps rising, yet our package is barely scraping the bottom of the barrel. The dangers and threats we face are substantial; so how about giving us what we actually deserve. This ship is sinking. We know it and they know it (even DFO will know it when he pulls his head out of his backside).
"If I'm going down, I might as well go down fighting!"
Why are we not saying enough is enough? Why don't we just put down our tools until they make what we constantly do and face worthwhile/competitive? This ship is sinking anyway. If we go down, we might as well take these morons down with us!
AoA/Pilot group, what do you say?