Bad tidings in KAL?
Heard from a former colleague whose contract is due for renewal...his agency indicated that no more contract renewalsfor b744 guys. 2/3 of the cargo fleet is idle. To him it is a blessing in disguise, inertia had kept him in KAL for too long. So he is getting a baby bus rating to join some outfit in Red China paying more than what he gets in KAL!
According to him things got really bad in KAL after 2007; a lot of good things gone...the first class dead heading privilege taken away, no more accumulation of backlog leave, more stringent conditions for privilege travel, no increase in per diem despite the surging inflation, closure of the dispatch office at the terminal with crew now having to shuttling up and down to a remote crew operations centre, computer self briefing adding time and inconvenience during the preflight process, 200 questions in self study questionaire prior to line checks, ridiculous sim training syllabus,
the managing senior vice president of flight operations coming out with ridiculous directives curtailing crew activities at layovers, the need to address cabin crew as " sirs " and " madams ". Apparently the managing SVP flt ops is **** scared of the cabin crew boss who is the KAL chairman's daughter!
Also,flight crew recruitment has scraped the bottom of the barrel with only people holding dubious credentials flooding in creating a general debasement of foreign crew quality. These questionable characters add to foreign crew woes as they abuse the privileges leading to everyone suffering from greater scrutiny besides losing some of the privileges. So not a very good picture...............