Buying an endorsement = buying a job
What's with the increasing trend of all operators to make pilots pay for endorsements? That Qantas now expects applicants to pay for a Dash-8 endorsement is the last final bloody straw. Where does your average self-funded pilot get that kind of money after forking out tens of thousands already to get to airline transport standard?
What's the industry 'union' doing about it? As far as I can see, two halves of nothing. What on earth do we pay fees for anyway?
Is is just a case of sending the federation a million emails so they get the point that pilots aren't happy about this spiral-dive?