...on the subject of BALPA and P2F schemes.
If BALPA membership is 1% of annual earnings, and presumably they don't exclude anyone from membership, then I suggest that all P2F pilots should be
PAID by BALPA for their membership, 1% of whatever their P2F costs are. Since they are effectively 'earning' a negative sum, then their contribution should also be a negative amount, therefore paid to them by BALPA rather than the other way about.
No, of course I have no sympathy for the masses of self centred P2F pilots who are ruining things for everyone else in their efforts to jump the queue, but you can't entirely argue with the above logic, or it at least highlights just how absurd the whole concept of 'paying to work' is, and perhaps if BALPA had to fork out say £400 for every P2F member (based on typical £40K type rating plus experience package), then they might just start to take the whole issue a bit more seriously!
