The fact remains that the so called Mixed Freighter Flying agreement was instigated at the companys' behest, under the guise of integration and appearing to give us some huge concession during the negotiations for whatever set of COSAP was then being forced on us and, like it or not, it gave people the option to elect
Not to fly the freighter. The MFF is incredibly one sided and has served nobody really apart from the company, and those former AHK and ASL employees who transferred to CX; it's done none of the mainline guys any favours...except that some individuals have been able to go for a freighter command. One could argue that if ASL hadn't been formed in the first place then these same officers would have had their chances to fly the freighters anyway, and would have had their commands a damned sight sooner..In the past as they say...Notwithstanding any of the above the company gave the guys the chance to say NO to mixed fleet flying and this should not be ######about with, nor indeed should any form of external pressure be applied (ie coercion of S/O's, F/O's by fleet managers, withholding of bases, NTC's telling us how exciting flying the freighter/visits to Delhi are etc. etc). If it's an industrial "AGREEMENT" then that's the end of it...stat....and it's not our fault if the company have screwed up and can't crew the freighter...
