Hi Alex
I guess you're new to ryanair, so all is still rosy. You owe it to yourself, and to your new profession, to establish the facts however. Start by joining REPA then IALPA/BALPA as appropriate. If nothing else, think of it as (very cheap) professional insurance. You insure your car, so insuring your profession makes eminent sense.
Anyway, just a few points (you're better off on repaweb if you want to really learn stuff):
don't wanna get paid much, like to work 4 sectors a day and enjoy being treated like !!!!e by management...
I'm afraid this is how it is though. Your pay may seem great to you know, but it's the worst 737 pay in Western Europe. And it won't be getting better without a real union. See what happened at Easy.
If you haven't yet been treated !!!!e by management, lucky for you, but that day is coming sure as night follows day. Talk to your colleagues. Better than sticking your head in the sand.
it is obvious that ryanair has a strong influence on the IAA (and not only), and what exactly has this got to do with anything?
This is everything, and why is so obvious I'm not going to go into it.
How can you say that an airline having a strong influence on its supposedly independent safety regulator is ok????
I suggest you refer to the many threads on repaweb to learn just how little protection you have from the IAA.
doesn't seem to me that protecting ryanairs pilots is included in the IAA's roles...
Not directly. But ensuring that ryr pilots are able to focus on the job without financial, fatigue worries etc is very much with the safety remit of the regulator.
The also do allow for direct undercutting of the pilots by allowing a massive number of connies and validating licences from anywhere in the world. Contract work undermines the T&C's of the entire profession. That's the bottom line. Why do you think MOL loves contractors? If they get paid more than permanent pilots, d'you really think there'd be so many?
And hopefully soon so we'll get paid more... but I doubt it.
Once that doubt it removed across the company, change will happen quicker than you could possibly imagine. Their weapon is doubt, ours is belief. The pilots will win eventually, when depends solely on when we believe we can. See ya on repaweb.
And finally remember, you have but one ally in this profession, it aint the company, it aint the IAA, its your union, so get joining.