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Old 8th December 2009 | 18:28
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Gary Lager
 
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It's not hard to find airlines which have made people redundant during the current ecomonic hiccup. Unions cannot prevent redundancies, but absence of union recognition does not necessarily create an advantage which will always guarantee commercial success.

That fact that such a large number of the airlines mentioned have BALPA recognition says more about the vast majority of professional pilots feeling that the union has something to offer them, and that BALPA recognition and membership is important, than it does about any of the redundancies being caused by BALPA (which is what your perverse use of examples attempts to show). Logic doesn't seem to feature heavilty in your arguments, does it Slim?

It's a little rich for the compnay which invented the concept of 'screw-the-pilot' (sim fees, pay for your TR, pay to fly, BRK etc.) so then lay blame the uptake of similar concepts elsewhere at the door of the BALPA!
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