Number of Years Flying: 5
Current Status/Employer: Redundancy due to Global downturn - Charter Airline
Option Selected: Former member - Cancelled out of touch / not effective
Supporting Reason for Selection:
1) Went to BALPA job conference at LHR, 90% of attendee's fATPL holders <500 hours. Emirates, Etihad, Virgin Atlantic, etc. all gave talks however hiring minimums were >2,500/3,000. Easy/TCX/Monarch/Thomson (traditional hirers of low houred applicants) all no shows. Charged £70.
2) Canadian pilot agreement with TCX and how its being exploited, no action.
3) Reports of schoolboy errors and oversights in negotiations (outwith BA).
4) Looking at pilot T&C's vs train driver T&C's from 20 years ago and see what effective collective bargaining can achieve when dealing with numerous companies.
5) Pay2Fly schemes - I still don't know what their position is or if they have a strategy. From their forum not one BALPA employee made a comment, however they were quick to post on issues that were either easy to deal with or faff (in my humble opinion). This is single most important issue we will have to deal with in the next few years.
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
Last edited by Dreamshiner; 18th Feb 2010 at 03:29.