KAL FCU
Oh and an update on the KAL FCU....
John doesn't mention that several of the committee went to jail in 2001 and that a handful never got their jobs back. The union members are STILL paying them "subsistence" - until they are 55.
The management succeeded in splitting the union in 2005: ex-military versus Cheju Flying School-trained; the latter are in the FCU.
Nowadays, ex-military guys get their commands 3 years quicker than the Cheju guys.
And if you are a union committee member, you get a special pre-command assessment and automatically get another 2 years added i.e. 14 years as F/O before command course. I agree with you Moosp - bravery, moral fibre and dogged determination.