Originally Posted by WWW
They've condemned it in The Log.
Ultimately there is only one person/one entity that can stop free men signing a pay-to-fly contract with an airline employer. It isn't BALPA and it isn't other pilots or the Courts. Its Wannabes. They are the ONLY people who have the power to stop pay-to-fly.
But they never ever work collectively and never will. These days the one with the biggest pile of cash wins. And nothing else matters.
Truly sad for the profession but there you are.
WWW
WWW, you do usually speak a fair bit of sense, but that is a load of tosh.
The people at the bottom of the food chain have absolutely no ability to change things. The ones who can are the management, senior pilots, BALPA CC's and the suchlike.
Blaming wannabee's for the lack of backbone and the "I'm alright Jack" attitude that pilots have shown over this problem is bonkers.
It's like blaming poor peasants for drought or corruption. They suffer from it, they don't cause it to happen.
People who are just out of training are usually up to their eyeballs in debt and are needing a job to start paying it back, of course they will take every single opportunity to start earning a living. It is human nature to try and get ahead in anyway you can. Dog eat dog.
What should have been done is that the senior pilots should have seen this coming and stopped it at the start, unfortunately they didn't and now the genie is out of the bottle. P2F is atrocious, as is paying for a type rating in the first place, but until there is a massive shortage of pilots, then it won't disappear.
Blaming inexperienced, desperate people for finding themselves in a cr*p situation and then doing anything they can to get out of it is simply wrong. They didn't cause it, but sure as hell are suffering because of it.
There are many people who should hang their heads in shame over this issue, but inexperienced and skint wannabees come low down on that list.