Norwegian Individual Pilots Loading Planes
Came across this article: AP - Norwegian gets Dreamliner in June - Helping you travel
And since I am of the opinion that it is highly misleading to write that Norwegian's own pilots retrieves planes so I sent the following email to the reporter:
Dear Day Fonbak.
Just want to make you aware of a factual error in your article: Norwegian gets Dreamliner in June: AP - Norwegian gets Dreamliner in June - Helping you travel.
You write that Norwegian's own pilots to get the aircraft in the United States. Firstly, this is not the pilots who work in English, secondly, it is not Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA to operate the aircraft.
In the collective agreement in Norwegian pilots have with their employer is the introduction:
^ All operations are subject to the prevailing k agreement between Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA and the Norwegian Pilot Association. The pilots employed by Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA.
Collective agreement includes all pilots who are employed by Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, based in Norway, Sweden or Denmark.
The parties will jointly evaluate and negotiate the extension of the scope of the area if the NAS later open bases outside Norway, Sweden or Denmark. ^
Among other things, to avoid having to deal with unions, then their employers' liability and Norwegian law as the management of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA decided to create subsidiary Norwegian Long Haul ASA as the new long route aircraft to be registered in. Voila, has turned out of the collective agreement with the union.
Management of Norwegian has the admiration viewed Ryanair's ability to generate huge profits by operating in the gray area of EU regulations. The philosophy is that employees are a necessary evil and an unwelcome financial burden and every opportunity to get the necessary manpower as cheap as possible, be used. The presence of the employee loyalty, enthusiasm and willingness to work that has built Norwegian's success from the start is completely uninteresting.
So the airline and pilots will now fly B787 on routes in Europe running as you write about will do so in direct competition with what is actually Norwegian's own pilots.
FACTS:
The pilots in Norwegian Long Haul ASA recruited by the agency Risworth Aviation and rented from there into short-term contracts to Norwegian Long Haul ASA in appalling conditions. No pension, no health insurance, cf. Norwegian standard and no employer contributions for Norwegian to pay to the Norwegian government. The pilots are on paper based in Bangkok. While in reality, the planes produce routes that you know for example. Oslo-New York and Copenhagen-Fort Lauderdale. The only thing that the term "Base" in Bangkok is a doe or Danish who is a pilot in this operation must pay to commute to Bangkok to begin their working period there and cover their own expenses to stay at any night peak there. Meanwhile, Norwegian elegant snuck away all costs and obligations under the Norwegian Working Environment and tax policy as this according to them is about a production in Thailand
HOW:
How to get them as qualified personnel for such conditions you may ask? Here I'll give you two examples, one captain and one first officer:
1 Dutch captain, lives in Amsterdam.
Captain X is retired from KLM, he has had a long and good career there, not to mention a solid collective agreement which secured him a solid pension plan retirement age of 56 years. Now he misses the flight, he experienced the long route flight of Boeingfly perfectly suited to the Norwegian's new 787 operation. He is a fresh and talented 56 year old and could well imagine to fly a few years and find it exciting to be checked out on the new Boeing 787 He has full board and all social rights in the Netherlands so that contract through Risworth have poor conditions compared with the Long Haul pilots of KLM, Lufthansa and SAS does not really matter to him. Dessåuten he travels the KLM captain who retired free between Amsterdam and Bangkok with KLM.
2 Norwegian mate, living in Oslo.
Officer Y is 35 years and after an expensive pilot training and many years of job hunting, he sits with a lot of debt and no other qualifications that give access to other professions with the requirements for professional competence. He's on top of their expensive pilot training even paid for checkout at the Boeing 737 and the so-called line training 500 hours. Thats. He has flown as co-pilot on the Boeing 737 for 500 hours in LionAir in Indonesia without pay to gain the experience that might give him a job he has long dreamed of. He did this in desperation to get a bone within the industry and have spent their precious education so it should not be wasted. LionAir in Indonesia engaged in such sales by "Line Training" on a large scale as a way to free officers, who actually pay to fly for them. You can google LionAir, you will see which safety record has them.
This has cost him 350 000, - plus the already huge education debt. After this he received a 6 month summer contract with the Danish company Primera that hires pilots on short-term contracts to cover peaks in summer production.
Officer Y is now unemployed, he has huge debts and just passed 1000 hours on the Boeing 737, thus he fits perfectly into Norwegian's plans. When purchasing B787 has nemmelig Norwegian gained with the acquisition of Boeing training and check-out for a certain number of pilots. The requirement for this course is that the pilot has 1000 hours from before on a newer Boeing machine.
Officer Y seems Risworth contract is lousy, but he finds that by obtaining a cheap shelters in Bangkok and by not paying any taxes anywhere can have a good lifestyle in Thailand on the gross amount that is paid on the contract. The contract states, however, that salary is paid gross to an account in the Isle of Man and it is the pilot who is responsible for all obligations relating to taxes, social security and insurance, and that under all circumstances Norwegian Longhaul and Risworth Aviation held harmless in these cases. Officer Y do not want to be tax evader but to afford to take this job, while retaining apartment in Oslo, he must do so.
Such is the reality of European aviation today Fonbak, but may not make the headlines that sell well enough that VG will write about it.
You have received this information in the form of an anonymous e-mail when employees of aviation in Norway today, with some airlines, just can kiss goodbye any karriærestige if you come forward publicly. To obtain official statements and comments about the things I have made I am referring to:
Norwegian Airline Pilots Association: Norwegian Pilots Association
Norwegian Pilot Union:
[email protected]
This email is also posted in the pilot forum PPRuNe Forums - Professional Pilots Rumour Network and the matter is being discussed there.
Sincerely,
Jonas