Elektra, whats deregulation done for Australia? Are we any better off nowadays? I honestly ask you? Are we not back to the days of a duopoly? In an age of rising jet fuel and increasing labour costs and redundancies, has deregulation helped the Australian aviation industry? Are regional centres better served nowadays? Is staff morale better? are there better career prospects in Australia?
I aint anti deregulation, but if anybody thinks that the Australian aviation scene is better off these days a a result, they are seriously deluded.
This industry has been trashed by the likes of Impulse who have succeeded in making pay for your type ratings a requirement and resulted in Qantas now pitting one subsidiary off against the other to provide a service for however cheap and nasty as they can get it.
It was once an industry where you could get into a great regional like Kendell, then know you had a 30 plus year career ahead of you, now it's just full of desperado's and table thumping fools like the idiots that run Jet*, again that do nothing but pit and play off one group of employees against another in the name of cutting costs and again sacrificing pay and conditions.
And Sunfish, your comments and opinions are like your lower intestine........ stinking and loaded with danger!
Last edited by Pete Conrad; 5th Sep 2005 at 19:13.