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Old 29th September 2002 | 13:17
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shortly
 
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To actually paraphrase what I said 'They seem reasonably happy...the freighter fleets are far happier and have better morale than the passenger ones'. I stand by those statements and consider them close to the mark. The point in the threads surrounding those remarks was the alleged conspiracy within the company with regard to the freighter contracts. I also made the point that the freighter guys deserve more, during your selective and innaccurate quotation you deigned to miss that. I love the way that the AOA pit bulls have their selective memory in full flight with regard to the freighter crews, I attended a meeting where that lovely word 'scab' was bandied about in regard to them, how they had to form their own association and weren't welcome (then) in the AOA. The AOA body split the CX pilot community when ASL was introduced and they are doing it again with the new joiners now. It was the easy option then and it is again now. It was a mistake then and it is a mistake now. But time will mend the latest mistake too, but not before some are driven away from pilot unions altogether. Anyone who thinks that the doubling and more of salary by transferring to pax fleet as FO, and the ATO latest finding aren't the reasons for freighter captains making that decision are deluding themselves.
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