$-rate tied pay raise at Gulf Helis
HOT PRESS (or COLD PRESS - depending how you look at it!)
Up to 22% Pay rise for pilots in the works this week - BUT this is still not a fixed increase on basic - rather a 'currency/exchange rate correctional allowance' which will be recalculated every month and adjusted according to the value of the US$. Daft? Of course! Workable? Never in a month of Sundays! Suspicions? That the bleeding bean-counters will use any future excuse (coup in Rajisthan etc etc) to lose the 'adjustment' %age as soon as possoble once pilot manning levels increase significantly (probably by 2007!).
This is supposed to have brought GHC pilots up to par with ADA - but as we all know, ADA can't get pilots at their current [better] salary, so how will GHC fare with a lesser daily rate??? Not well, it is believed. Meanwhile the engineers are still stuck in economic obscurity without hope yet in sight. Rather daft, n'est-ce pas?
After all the promising talk and encouraging mutterings of $100 extra per day, the Keralite bean-counters and fiddlers-in-chief (the dark side of the Force) seem to be winning - is there a Luke Skywalker anywhere out there with a Light Sabre ready to get rid of The Evil Emperor and his muddling Minnions?
Hope so - otherwise Gulf helis will still proceed southwards at a steady, self-destructive pace. Whether the Chairman (Blessings Upon Him) is able to turn this around (without the use of an assault rifle in the company offices) remains to be seen!
A Merry Christlemouse to all our happy readers!