Originally Posted by
paul_v1
What is your approach and actions in making the industry better? Genuinely asking
A significant step would be permitting a truly intra EU union rather than unions in each member state and the ECA. Why have cabotage rights and an incredibly mobile workforce without a union that is likewise across the whole bloc?
The EU taking social dumping and “self employed contractor” contracts seriously and doing something about them rather than allowing the current situation would also be a damn good start. The scenario we are in where a pilot can be employed in one nation on a contract that would be totally illegal in another, but because they are nominally “based” in, say, Latvia, on a “service provider” contract to an agency in the Middle East and spend 20 days rattling around ACMI in Italy, Germany etc and then go home. It creates an incredibly distorted market and is unfair to everyone in the long term. The end of Ryanair’s contractor model was a start but that is all it was, a start. I cast no aspersions on those who take these contracts, they have families to look after; the argument “they know what they are signing” cuts as much ice as a soap hacksaw.
Personally I feel that until the above are achieved cabotage rights for EASA/EEA members essentially create a scenario that simply enables a race to the bottom. A pilot is more more expensive to employ in France, for example, for a host of reasons, but that is not a reason for them to be undercut by an ACMI operator in another Member State.
https://www.eurocockpit.be/sites/def..._15_0212_f.pdf
Worth a read.