So what do you all suggest we pay all the watch managers, ops people and other necessary "evils" who dare to take a salary without talking to pilots?
They are surely admin people by definition. Would you like to be supported by admin people on admin salaries and an admin level of knowledge of aviation? Its hard enough now to get good people to take their headsets off for a VERY small payrise and all the job security risk that comes with an office. People have their own motivations for doing this, but a lot of good people are lost to the business due to lack of incintive to remove the headset and run the company properly. What are we left with? Well, young turks, screwed over by our acceptance of the T&D scale have lots of financial incentive to leap up those spine points in to a management office before they have any real idea about how aviation works and we are all lumbered with the ensuing mess.
How will the college ever get/keep good instructors if they are deemed as a lower grade and paid accordingly?
Some of you could condider what happens when you are no longer able to hold a medical or no longer feel competent to do the job (at our new retirement age of 75). Should you be kicked out witout so much as a thank-you or should the company use some of those decades of knowlege and experience to their benefit? If I am deemed worthless by NATS as soon as I don't wear a headset, then I will want to be compensated for that risk now. Put that in your business case.
Dan Dare - never previously known as a management lakkey