Originally Posted by santa
Whats all this rubbish about goodwill? You pilots ought to come down from the clouds sometimes and then you would realise that you are not doing the company a big favour by turning up for work. In fact you might like to read your contract of employment and find out what the company expects from you as part of your normal duties.
As someone else has already stated, salaries are generally dictated by market forces relating to in this case the employment of pilots. If I were voting I would take this into consideration before rejecting the offer out of hand
Obviously you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
I will be nice by trying to explain to you what we mean by goodwill. One simple example among others. We are required to report for duty one hour before ETD. Experience shows this simply not enough to check in, get the paperwork, check weather NOTAMS, NTC's, brief ourselves and CC, walk to the aircraft, battle through security, do all our preflight checks, and go. In fact if we all turned up at ETD-1, as the book says, not a single flight would depart on time. This is why I personnaly turn up at least at ETD-1hr15 or even -1hr20. Needless to say I am not paid for these extra minutes, nor will these minutes count towards my duty time. This is what I mean by "goodwill". We could also give up trying to improve slots, negotiate direct routings with ATC, or chase up a missing fuel truck or caterer. There are many examples of how our "goodwill" enables the company to maintain a decent-ish schedule.
So you see, our job involves slighly more than just turning up for work as you say. I wouldn't lecture you on how to do your job (whatever it is), so please refrain from lecturing us. Thanks.