Charlie - the problems and mongrel conditions that are unloaded on the newbies coming into the industry are transmitted right down the line from GA, regional piston, large regional, turbo prop and onto mainline.
These conditions and the associated mindset leaks out to all the rest of the industry. It could be the dude in Reservations who is in danger of having his or her job outsourced to Hyderabad, or could be the LAME who loses his job to Hoo Flung Dung in Beijing.
This carries on down the line to IT specialists - 2 Indian firms do the IT work for QF now.
Unions are generally useless in this day and time, but what you guys and girls do are the ONLY indespensable part of the indusrtry. What occurs at your coalface impacts everything below right down through engineering, cabin crew, traffic staff, reservations and right down the food chain to us Travel Agents.
Without you they are Edward the Kangaroo - Roo Ted.
It is time to chuck out '89 - shizen happens and produce a front that will overcome the companies ripping a the heart of the industry for short term gain.
There is still enough in this wonderful industry for all of us.
Best all
EWL
Last edited by Eastwest Loco; 25th Mar 2007 at 09:59.