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Old 7th Jun 2007, 12:41
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sizematters, I take the point that Oasis are hiring, but the "many going to Oasis" is relative. If 40 go, that is 2% of the pilot workforce, which can easily be absorbed by scheduling.

The Freighter case is more serious, which explains why NR went to ANC to get the grassroots opinions. Not only are we losing pilots from the section that we have the most difficulty in staffing, but established pilots now have a better offer. And they will continue to have one, now that we are seen as a training organisation for American carriers.

As you probably know, a group of airlines, of which CX is one, have regular HR/FLTOPS meetings to do the management equivalent of the "Terms and Endearment" forum here. Obviously the American carriers cannot attend for anti-trust reasons, but you can be sure that they get the minutes.

The answer is the one that was used in previous pilot shortages, albeit many years ago. You simply change the admission requirements. As an example, an airline can operate wide body jets with 200 hour propjet guys in the right hand seat and 1,500/300 jet in the left. It's not pretty but it works, and people still fly on airlines that have had hull losses. Many LOCO/Zero service airlines do this already. Get the right people into the management of your airline, and they will accept it.

The most powerful productivity tool of management is to reduce the professionalism of pilots into a staff commodity. That is what we as pilots have to resist.
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