‘Thumbs Up’, you say you’re “…a 40 year old pilot who worked for a now defunct Australian major,10,000 hours commercial jet of which 5000 are in Command and an unblemished record”.
There’d be many who’d disagree with the last part of your statement (which I’ve highlighted). Because you simply couldn’t have that experience with that particular now defunct Australian major without wearing a lifelong tag no man would want attached to his name, (as I suspect you’re discovered these last twelve months). And before someone starts howling about me ‘hijacking the thread’, let me say that the way ‘Thumbs Up’ went about becoming a 10,000 hours commercial jet pilot with 5000 hours in Command is exactly what this thread is all about. It was the moral equivalent of ‘flying for free’ – taking a job as a blackleg in an industrial dispute.
The industry’s in the parlous state it’s in today – for pilots, at least – because people (I can’t call them ‘men’) like ‘Thumbs Up’ looked after themselves at the expense of the common good – the very thing people are complaining about here here.