Propjock:
To compare an airline pilot with a surgeon is a nonsense, and a completely invalid comparison. Sure we're in the safety AND service business, and failure to acknowledge the latter aspect has led to spectacular downfalls. Productivity is an imutable component of being in business, and it is juvenile to suggest that special preconditions exists for us pilots because our many responsibilities hapen to include safety. No one is advocating a complete aquiesence of professional ambission, but my point has been that these can be pursued in an equitable and reasonable manner by individuals representing themselves, rather than by headkicking industrial gang thuggery who seek to drag companies by the nose in a direction that is, broadly speaking, destructive.
Hunter58's demented babble continues to land wide of the mark. Crossair doesn't NEED a damn thing from the disaster previously known as Swissair. It's only the political reality of so many Swiss unemployed, and the creative and visionary Crossair leadership which has led to an opportunity for so many otherwise unemployable, in an industry where tales of snatching life from the jaws of death are very rare indeed.
Unions are Bunkum!
