Remember also that Al Italia pilots had the guts to stand their ground in the airline darkest hour.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, GreatBelt, are you for real? It takes a brave, brave man to hold the Italian Zombie up as the high water mark in pilot industrial relations. I thought in you I'd located my choice for imbecile of the year award, but wait, there's more!
I don't know the answer but feel that burning the extra fuel is probably the most effective way of making your point
At a time when, next to survival itself, environmental politics is the defining red button issue in our industry, and when well-intended but cluelessly misled groups like
Plane Stupid (sic) are utilising guerilla tactics in making their point, what does Centreline747 offer them and others on a platter? That's right, he's telling the world that pilots are encouraging acts of environmental sabotage. Well done, that man! Proof, if any more were needed, that sitting so high in the cockpit accelerates the irradiation of one's brain by cosmic radiation.
Our jumbo driving BALPA member goes on.....
This is one of the reasons the aviation industry has lost so much ground in the last 30 years.
No it isn't, chum. "lost so much ground", for those unaccustomed to their tiresome recruiting campaigns, is BALPA code for the transformation of the industry whereby customers have decided they'd rather not pay an extra three or four hundred quid for the pleasure of a rubber chicken dinner served to them by a sour, menopausal frump. When this great eye opener occurred in the collective psyche of our customers (remember them, boys?) the days of fur-lined conditions for the few were consigned to the way of the Dodo.
That they don't like it is, I suppose, understandable, but the paucity of their argument in defence of the bad old days and, worse still, their suggestion that union membership is somehow the universal panacea for pissed-off pilots everywhere is offensive and disingenuous in equal measure.
To them, of course, it is irrelevant that thousands of more pilots have jobs these days, and millions more customers can afford to fly. To them, a full plane is proof that an airline is profitable. The truth is, they wouldn't recognise yield management or unit cost if it ran into them in a lubricated Ferrari. No matter, though, the literature demonstrating that Throttle Monkeys make for terrible businessmen is documented to the heavens, as these four pages will ably attest.
To the pilots of EZY, go on boys, STRIKE. I double-dog-dare you! And over what? Oh that's right. No more free water, coffee and crew meals. BALPA fiddles while Easyjet burns.
TO THE BARRICADES, COMRADES. Last one in the bunker's a sissy!