Maxalt,
Salad won't make you fat, is good for you and does not have a problem with transport.
Why doesn't someone go and check out what the rules are regarding providing breaks to employees. There are mandatory breaks under EU law as far as I am aware. That is where one will find the answer to both issues - a break away from all tasks long enough to feed onself at one's own expense.
Who really gives a **** WHAT the public think? Are you suggesting they'd have more sympathy if we all earned 10K a year and lived on a council estate? Bollox.
Most people don't care where you live if you have a good case..................if you earn less than the average wage for doing a complex job then people will see the merit in your argument................if people are lead to believe that you are one of the country's top earners (brown envelopes aside) and moan about not getting free food or that as they visualise it - your sitting down zooming over the sky back breaking job is toooo hard then people will have no support.
If Ryanair pilots strike at Dublin for union recognition, will for example the brothers in the fire crew support their brethern who are being denided worker rights?.........not likely!............If baggage handlers on minimum wage and maximum hours strike then people can understand and may support the action.
The merit of your cases does not change but MOL is sowing the seeds in the public mind of fat cat salaries and easy lifestyle so that any disruption that can be pinned on pilots who will get no sympathy from the travelling public because of the propaganda.
EHHH??? Are you feckin dreaming? Micko is short of pilots...please explain to me why he'd PAY his people to leave?
Sheeeeeeesh.....!!
Because under redundancy rules, if the job no longer exists (they no longer can use the aircraft you fly) then the company can make you redundant.........but the redundancy requires compensation to be paid which depends on length of service etc..........thus he can either pay you to go.......or pay for the training required to keep you......................................................... ..........or if he thinks that he will get away with it........get people to pay for keeping the job that it would cost him money to get rid of.
That is why I think that regardless of the merit of the cases, the way in which the whole matter is being dealt with is simply perfect for on person - MOL.
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zehutman,
There is no time in the current schedule - 20 minute turnround - park, paperwork, brief, push, gone........hardly time for another P.
The times are so tight that there was a complaint some time ago from Dublin ATC that pilots were calling clearance delivery for the outbound clearance while still taxiing inbound to stand!..........may not have been company policy but it shows how the crews felt they had to do things to minimise time on the ground.
The inability to get anything decent in the terminal is why I put forward the packed lunch idea.
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Mike,
After to have been to Spain and back, where do you go on the next sector?
Regards,
DFC