Good to hear some sense here. Stop quarreling. As noted earlier, people willing to work in a cockpit for far less than what is industry standard have always been here. Always. They have just never had the opportunity to enter into service based on their willingness to work for lesser pay than their competition.
As was touched upon earlier "the old fashioned way" stopped this from happening. In other words they are not the problem. They are a symptom of the problem we're all facing.
It's not all about supply and demand either. Of course we're too many pilots, but that wouldn't be a big problems if we had effective unions. Then only the best of applicants would get any given job when the number of applicants rises. When you have an excess supply of pilots and you take away unions to open up for pilots bidding below each other of course you will have a downward spiral.
What is needed right (!) now is that NPF goes on a huge strike. The greater part of Norwegian is still organised in unions, and NPF could pressure Norwegian enough to make sure employees were not transferred to NLH. Norwegians margins are extremely thin (earnings less than 1% of total revenue) and management can't afford a stop of cashflow for long. This gives NPF leverage, and should be used to stop this development as soon as possible. If NPF waits too long the chance will be gone, with a greater amount of pilots now in an organisation that gives no power to unions. Then the organisation will look just like Ryanair. Pressure NPF, don't go after each others throats. Learn from what happened in Ryanair before it's too late.
Last edited by KristianNorway; 6th Oct 2012 at 10:03.