Swingwing, we agreed with you right up until they gave themselves 60% payrises for as you put it, for running an under performing company, and then in the next breath, advocating the tightening of belts for the rough weather ahead, and heads will have to roll for the blow out in the fuel price.
Do building companies sack builders when the price of bricks go up? Or do they put the price of the houses they build up? Do bakers get sacked when the price of wheat goes up? Or does the price of a loaf rise? (Pardon the pun).
I seem to remember the justification for the CEOs 60% pay rise was based on what other CEOs in a similar position got, so why shouldn't we compare our salaries with what other pilots get? Whats good for the goose....
They keep telling us "Its all about supply and demand, and market forces", well, so is the supply and demand of skilled labour, and the cost of keeping it or losing it.
We are an essential commodity to the operation of aircraft. As essential as fuel. We are expensive to replace, and impossible to operate without. It would be remiss of us not to keep an eye on the current market value of this commodity.
(JPC pilots exempted from this current market value evaluation of course).
