KABOY et al
please don't tar the present AIPA with the same tar brush used by AIPA of old.
Have a look at the present "Group Opportunity List" that is presently being proposed by the new AIPA team.
Is it any wonder That the powers to be ,will not entertain this concept, yet.
Geez can't have these pilot people actually working together ,from an industrial perspective.
Look what happened to pilots the last time they worked together as one industrial entity,that's right, pilots pay and conditions in this country for close to 40+ years made piloting a "profession" that people where willing to risk a large sum of money in order to obtain a licence ,and then hopefully after many years of hard work get a decent job in an Airline with reasonable pay and conditions.Or conversely do the hard yards in the military and enter an airline from that stream.
What do we have now?
Management playing one pilot group off against another ,creating a race to the point where we all disappear up our own fundamental orifices .
One does not have to be Einstein to work out where this will all lead to.
Why would a kid and his or her family risk 10's of thousands of dollars to get a qualification that will earn the budding pilot less than what a train driver earns with absolutely no job security to boot?
Is it any wonder there is a looming shortage?
Bring on AusALPA I say and lets get back to building a career path of choice not subsistence.
Let's actually create some "choice" out there!