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Old 18th Dec 2009, 11:39
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ShortfinalFred
 
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As per my post on another T and C thread about easyjet and contract Captains, the Russians are coming!!

My mate told me that the advisor to the orange board, the greek economics guy, said that Russian pilots were "the bargain of the century" and it was only a matter of time before they found the mechanism to employ them and so to "decimate terms and conditions across the UK airline industry", as he put it "to the great benefit of passengers - flying an aeroplane is no more socially useful than driving a bus and should be paid accordingly", so my mate recounted. The fact that this genius of economics is talking out of his *rse does not seem to bother the easy board who are, apparently, listening with rapt attention.

Soon it wont just be the FOs that are paid peanuts (or indeed, as here paying to sit in the flightdeck) - Captains will be paid peanuts too. This industry is shot to sh*t.
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