Your "livliehoods" oh give me a break. Your "livliehood" is not under threat. "Future of aviation"???
So the future of aviation is under threat because a commercial entity makes a decision based on long term growth and wishes to pay local market salaries???
It is the
Pilots who are calling for strike action, not Mannion so try another angle eh? You have NO support from the general public on this one. And it your customers come from the General public, just remember that, (remember your customers? the people you are supposed to be serving?)
A letter written to the Irish times today sums it up..
Madam, - If Aer Lingus were to open a hub in Sydney, or Chicago, or Ulan Bator, should the pilots there have the same pay and conditions as pilots flying out of Dublin?
This disgraceful strike demonstrates once again the basic attitudes that pervade many (if not most) Government and semi-state bodies: an absolute contempt for the needs of the customer, an overweening sense of entitlement, a mythology of grievance, and a conviction that these organisations exist not for the benefit of owners, customers, the government or the public at large, but for the benefit of the employees. - Yours, etc,
JOHN STAFFORD, Knocklyon, Dublin 16.
That totally sums it up and also is clear that this is the feeling of many of the pilots here. That EI exists for your benefit, not your customers. That you have a lifelong career at EI and that's all that matters, which of course is ridiculous.
And foul language? Grow a spine.