R405, reality check? I take it that you aren't a pilot then, considering your answer. Please do some research before posting again.
Wiley, as I said in my post, TYWDNM was most assuredly the trigger. THOSE we also do not mention thought merely of themselves. The companies then denegrated the auspicous position of pilot to merely that of a contract worker - disposable labour.
I am NOT going to turn this into a 1989 argument, but if we cannot look at history and how it has shaped this industry, for better or for worse, then we are just sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring the awful truth.
As I mentioned, it is time SOMETHING UNITED was done to stem the rot endemic in the Australian airline industry.
If not, before too long, Hawke may just have his prophecy come true - we will be just glorified bus drivers.
And we all want to prove that mongrel wrong!
