Still age gap relationships, never seem to last long do they? ........
Depends on your point of view, Aldente, but I note with interest that your slovenly instincts and fondness of slime stand, radiant as ever, in heroic defiance of any rehabilitation. What a despicable reprobate you are, old boy, and in what good company too. ASFKAP, Barden and the redoubtable Aldente all on the same page. An unwholesome gathering if ever I saw one.
Poor old Whistleblower, the failed pilot of County Wicklow whose capacity for hot air varies inversely with stature, starts a thread in bad faith, designed expressly to put a bit of muck about, and almost immediately it descends with the velocity of an enthusiastically greased crowbar into a bit of anti-Ryanair biffo-slappo. Well done, lads, well done indeed, but there’s that pesky little thing called truth that oft gets in the way and I’m just the Camel to remind you of it. When measured against the facts of life, rather than the fantasy world you clearly belong to, you’re left sounding like so many disgruntled chickens in a rained-upon henhouse from hell.
The first thing that needs saying is to address those sad, deluded misanthropes who try to advance the argument, apparently with a straight face, that pilots who choose to advance their careers by purchasing a Type Rating are single handedly responsible for an industry-wide reduction in terms and conditions and, worse still, are somehow lesser pilots for the process.
Nothing could be further from the truth. TRTO’s like Ryanair and many others, offer type-rating training and do so as a business. There is no compunction to purchase, and even lesser compunction to provide employment thereafter, but Ryanair
does offer employment and in colossal quantities too, a fact you’re clearly keen to overlook.
How dare you have the effrontery to suggest that it remains the purview of only the lucky few who obtain sponsored type ratings with loss-making legacy carriers? The arrogance is utterly breathtaking. An extension of that fatuous logic would return the business of flying to the bad old days when only the wealthy could afford to fly, and when flag carriers were protected from the cold commercial world by deep-pocketed governments with barely a care for the bottom line.
Profits were meaningless and airlines were run as “social projects”. Well, I’m afraid it’s a different world now, gentlemen, whether you like it or not. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle and the bitch likes what she sees. It's called the free market and Ryanair is it's Gorilla-in-chief.
Secondly, you miss the most significant point in the stories of those young pilots who take the plunge and make a substantial investment in themselves in order to advance their careers ahead of those possessed of more timid dispositions. Ryanair only takes the best of applicants, as anyone who has undergone our recruitment procedure knows only too well. Those who take part in a Ryanair Type Rating know full well that they stand an excellent chance of making it on line with a wildly successful LCC, and commencing their careers in a way that’s hard to imagine eclipsing.
Brand new aircraft and rapid promotions in a world-leading organisation like Ryanair will never be the professional objective of everyone, especially the terminally aggrieved windbags of the BALPA proselytizers, but then it was ever thus. Every other airline is downsizing or going bust, but that doesn't matter does it? Have you so soon forgotten, you few agitators who forlornly cling to the view that BLAPA are of any more substance than an oily fart in a blizzard, that in truth they’re as useless as tits on a bull? When asked to !!!! or get off the pot, BLAPA always choose the latter. It was ever thus and always will be.
Well folks, after an entirely underwhelming response from Ryanair pilots, whose fate, it seems, is to be forever forced into repeatedly demonstrating they
don’t want BALPA recognition, even after BLAPA’s embarrassingly expensive 2.5 million pound apotheosis to thinly conceived half-arsery that they called their “Dignity and Respect” campaign, they got off the pot alright, and in a timely fashion too, because had they put up properly, they’d have been compelled to shut up for a further three years...oh happy day. From Aldente & Co. we’re witnessing nothing more than the pressing of very sour grapes indeed.
Finally, if you seriously expect a rational public to accept there are pilots sleeping in their cars, you’re stretching BLAPA’s Bull!!!!ometer to breaking point. Can you seriously expect that a pilot who shells out nigh-on €100,000 on a frozen ATPL, and thousands more still on a type rating, feels compelled by virtue of lack of available funds to sleeping in a carpark? Absolute bull!!!! on stilts. After type rating and line training, a matter of mere weeks, Ryanair pilots are pulling in serious coin. Those on a BRK contract are on the most financially lucrative first officer contracts on earth, a fact well known to the bottom feeders at BLAPA, hence their interest in pursuing all those lovely thousand pounds per year. I would too were I broke with a bunch of militant, final-salaried employees sucking me dry. They know it alright, but it’s not in their interest to advertise the fact.
Whistleblower asks “when will Ryanair pilots learn”? I think the more pertinent question is “when will BLAPA and the Irish pygmy IALPA learn?
You are not wanted here. You are well known as the devious, back-door bores and purveyors of third-rate bull!!!!, threats and intimidation that you are. We have your measure, we see your true colours, and yet you persist. Why?