Timely piece on terms and conditions in the airline industry as costs are cut.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_j...962183,00.html
Two interesting quotes on the low cost sector:
"No-frills airlines are building their businesses on the back of reducing the terms and conditions of their people, and on the back of a crisis in the market" claims Patrick O'Keefe, the TGWU's acting secretary for air transport. And here, the award for the trade unions' least-favourite airline must surely go to Ryanair.
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Mr Loader also felt that a 12-month renewable contract as a training captain might risk the possibility of being pressurised into failing certain pilots as unfit to fly, or risk losing his job. "I have definitely made the right decision not to work for Ryanair," he says.
Why would this Captain have such a concern? Anyone care to comment?