ooo arent we a little touchy this morning! jet lagged?
may I just step in to mention the fact that average hits per visitor is an accepted and required notice when referring to site statistics - even with 10 hits per visitor, half a million for a site of that kind is very impressive...
and to fill in to your point scoring of nosegear,
2) Almost all other airlines don't require the cost of applications to be carried by the applicant... Its an
accepted cost incurred in recruitment and in turn
ensures adequate selectivity when deciding on which applicants to invite for an assessment... The structure was set up ages ago and till this day works fine...
An airline which requires payment of this should be seen to be questionable...
The pilot's skills and investments are a good...They come with a price...
3) Nosegear quoted "30,000"... Admittantly it should have been currency specific... Type ratings
cost typically 30,000 euros. This more correctly equates to
20,000 STL at the least...
4) Starting pilots are
not paid anything whilst they are undergoing training and until they begin line training... Once line training commences, they still are not paid anything until release of the safety pilot... Following this they are paid
only 30% of their 'promised' earning... It takes another month or so until completion of their line training that they are then
paid 70% of their potential earnings... Its another
6 months until full payment as claimed from the start of the assessment is given, WITHOUT any backdating of reduced pay...
5) A "Training Base" is assigned during line training, which is told to be the place from which most of the line training will take place.
Movement to other bases happens with less than a days notice in most cases, without any further assistance or information regarding the base to which one is moving...
The costs incurred durign this already low-paid period are astronomical for the pilot...
Again, other airlines avoid this if they can as it incurs further financial and moral issues down the line...
6)
Uniform costs are taken by the pilot in full from day one... Sorry turret, award the full marks here please...
7) Water is provided at bases, but if the coolers are broken no compensation is offered... Furthermore crews from other bases are unaware of the location of water fountains in the other bases, and often day shifts exist where
crews are away from their base (and the water fountain) for up to 7 hours... Combined with a high workload environment where the average humidity rarely breaches 10%,
dehydration and performance degradation results...
8) "what you mean by etc?"... cheap shot
9) you support nosegears claim here.
Notice for base change is irrefutably short and is often incurred on the individual's time off, time which by law is supposed to be completely unrelated to work...
This point also contradicts the 'stable rosters' claim made.
5 on 3 off does not change, granted, but how those 3 days off are then used alternatively besides flying does (think medical for another example)...
10) then
why the need for the websites? why are there 200+ people on
www.repaweb.org? why the thousands of messages from all staff (cabin, flight, ground, checkin) to ryan-be-fair.org?
why the labour court hearing and subsequent ruling that there are labour relations issues (specifically intimidation at the workplace) requiring resolution?
why were pilots on the older 737-200
threatened their job and advancement to the 737-800 if they continued discussion with employee repressentative organisations?
intimidation is ripe... Thus the reason for the numerous outlets on anomynous web forums whilst all is quiet on the frontline...
why was the previous ground breaking forum, stretching 24 pages, removed due to legal complaints by 'the plaintiff'?
