Expect pilots to leave in droves as soon as the opportunities arrive
Correct. 5 CTC slave F/Os' stuck 2 fingers up to the company and resigned for pastures new last week. Well done to them and good luck. Expect a large number of F/Os' and quite a few skippers to leave in the not too distant future should opportunities arise elsewhere.
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It will take more than a few grand in exchange for having a life over the summer and some free "conditional" share options to convince me anything has changed at easy. Nothing has - they have completely
it up regarding crew numbers for the peak season, as we all knew they would. Summer of 2006 all over again anyone? They are buying us off to cover their own mistakes and piss poor decisions that were driven by a combination of corporate greed and a complete disdain for anyone within the company other than top level management. The only positive news is offering full time contracts to F/Os who have been treated like part time shelf stackers for 2 years. However, that is no great credit to our paymasters - they are simply doing something that common decency dictates they should have done a long time ago. Same with the pay deal on offer, sector pay for positioning and proper sector pay for flying to the Middle East and back in one duty is not generosity that we should all applaud, it is the company rectifying something we should have had years ago.
If they really wanted to make easy "A great place to work" and "re-engage" with the pilot workforce they could. The problem of course, as always, is it would require them to spend some money and take a long term view of how they crew the airline. And we all know they would rather set fire to their own underpants than do that.
I doubt I am alone in thinking this summer will be, erm, "interesting".
