The management in Australia rub their hands together everytime Pilots go at each other.
We (Pilots) have become easy victims for the degradation of our terms and conditions because of what happened 12 years ago.
Why continue to fight each other.
Yes it was a shock what happened to all of us in 89.
If we could understand the pressure brought upon all of us by Mr Abeles and our dear PM: Then vent our anger towards Hawke and our letters to members of parliment we could redirect the hatred and mistrust, rebuild the bridges between all Pilots then make an effort to improve the conditions of all aviators.
In 12 years there has become a huge divide in salaries between Airlines, the conditions have deteriated to long duty hours, poor rostering and an attitude from the companies..."If you don't like it then leave"
If all Pilots could find a way to forgive then we would wrest control of our destiny from the companies.
If AIPA, AFAP and APA pooled their resources the terms and conditions of all Pilots would improve, GA would be stable and safer with compensation from the Higher salary earners, and we could also be the catalyst to fix up CASA and the Australian aviation system.