Just to echo Jakes t houghts. The majority of QF drivers are cheering mightily hard for you blokes on this one. Admittedly it is out of patent self interest but most endeavours in this world are done out of that.
I'm sick of being told about VBs 'lower cost base' and anything that brings the two closer together is a good thing by me- and presumably by you blokes too.
What person after flogging around GA for years doing THY and now flying a 737
DOESN'T deserve to be paid more than $100K per annum as a F/O?
A mate of mine once told me that executive salaries and bonuses are all about 'at risk' pay. Well, considering that most CPL holders have outlaid in excess of $50K and then for the most part spent a couple of years earning less than a glamourous wage, why shouldn't they be paid well. Management certainly is and you could argue that they 'risk' a lot less on a daily basis than we do. They stuff up and the menus don't arrive on the aircraft or the rosters are crap. We stuff up....
Go get 'em fellas and ladies, you'll get support from every thinking QF driver!
