I like our brand but whenever ALPA guys talk about "major" I shiver
Maybe you should go down and fill out the CZALPA application...that'll stop you from shivering. While you're at it, get some facts straight from them. We are a major in the field, face it...this is a legacy carrier. No reason why the standard should not be adhered to, but all of a sudden someone is very interested in having loads of flight crew and as Bratko said they are NOT willing to pay for them. There is no shortage of pilots, there will not be a shortage of GA pilots in five years or ten or twenty. There is a shortage of QUALIFIED pilots AND type rated on our equipment. IT all comes down to money, mooolah, greenbacks, funny money, whatever you wanna call it. We can get qualified people but you'd have to pay for it. Why don't you see any foreigners flying for CSA except a few expats that were either born here or had Czech parents and escaped the commie hell? It's because the pay sucks and the attitude of the company, although marginally better then before, sucks. Why do we have the company putting 10 euros in our pension plan a month when it used to be 3 percent of gross? Why has it not changed? Why is it that everything takes an incredible amount of time to work through company channels? All the people that were staining their diapers when the new president showed up have solidified their positions and are now doing their outmost to put the screws to us.
I think that you'll be singing a different tune in about five years FD. A couple of times you're going to get shafted for promotion, or you'll get calls about something that was completely out of your control and once you deal with the bureacracy and the deskbound psychotics you'll start smoking wacky tobaccy or taking valium like LE. Really think about this and don't forget that if it weren't for the union, your starting pay would be less than the average monthly pay in Czech land. Mine was, and I know how it feels to get 300 USD a MONTH. What I used to consider a good daily wage turned out to be my monthly wage. THink about this for a while and if I were you, I'd go down and give the ALPA guys a great hug. If you've only been with the company for the last couple of years, you have no idea what it used to be like. A lot of the stuff you take for granted is a result of ALPA input. No need to shiver.
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