The AOA is not the bad guy - we are the AOA. If you don't like where we are going then say something or do something.
For those of us staring down the barrel of 16-18 years to command, who will never get on a base and will have our pay scale frozen at year 8 S F/O we are not the AOA. You only have to read the likes of BusyB posts to see that there are three sides, the company, the AOA (who supports anyone who already has a command) and the guys who joined after Jan 01 2000.
The ASL first integration has added 3 years, this will be long enough for age 65 to add another 5 years, which will be long enough for KA integration to add another 5 years................
Lets be honest, none of this will have any effect on any skipper or most of the GC in the AOA so why should they care. Surely the obvious "do something" is to get everyone who joined CX in 2000 or later out of the AOA if they're in it, and more importantly into a representative body of 1500ish members.
Can't say that anything would be achieved but when the company meets with the pilot representatives, and the company outlines what it wants, and the AOA outlines what it wants (jobs on the pax fleet for it's freighter mates, age 65 for it's skippers, CX pax commands for it's DPA mates etc....), there would be a representative present for 1500 junior CX pilots to say they're possibly a little unhappy.
Wins all round. The junior pilots group get a say and can fight as a unit, it may not be much but it's better than nothing. The AOA never gets a new member again, looses a few hundred annoying junior members and can happily pursue age 65 for the good of it's own, and the company gets to hear from both the AOA and the JPG as to what they want.
Thanks NC, couldn't have thought of it without you
