you are a bit of course.
No Captain overrules industrial agreements unless he/ she wants an invitation from the CP) . yes he/she is in charge of the aircraft (no one ever questions that) but has to take into consideration industrial agreements written into SOP's. This article resulted into a flury of phone calls and as a result the FAAA published an email to its members re this issue. I fully understand the issue re contractors getting higher priorities( which pi...ses everyone off severly), I have to deal with this issue all the time as long serving staff members throughout the company get sh...ted by contractors. Don't start me off with J* contractor with pc categories
As for flippin burgers, not a bad idea. join the mining boom get 200k plus to flip burgers and don't have to put up with self loading freight, princesses etc.
