“There is a lack of accountability for the continual degradation and undercutting of professional piloting conditions in Australia”
Perhaps you should make an appeal to the “market forces are being nasty to me” police. Who on earth are you expecting to be accountable for the natural evolution in market forces? God, perhaps.
“The laissez-faire attitude of large numbers of Australian airline pilots to their conditions of service could coldly be deemed unprofessional”
And so they should adopt your set of values and abandon their own?
“Because if you are willing to work for considerably less and undercut other pilots professionaly, it generally manifests itself in other professional aspects- poor quality training, rostering & safety structure etc.”
So you are suggesting that high salaries are responsible for good rostering, training and safety culture? Interesting how accident reports from airlines such as KA, AN and QF specifically referred to poor crew training being important factors.
Tinpis,
“Nice weather ...low traffic...flat as a ****-carters hat.”
True, but most airliner accidents that occur are not related to wx/terrain/traffic level. Maintainance errors are now becoming more common and human error, particularly amongst pilots, is the most common. To that end, Australia is doing something right.
Kaptin,
“pilots in Viet Nam, India, and China, are on MUCH higher salaries than most Australian airline pilots, but have MUCH lower cost of living expenses, leaving a vastly higher final disposable amount.”
SOME expats in these countries are paid more than SOME pilots in Australia are. The majority of pilots in China and India are paid considerably less than the majority of pilots in Australia.