“You will get paid what you negotiate!!”
No, you will get paid largely what you are worth. Unless you have 100 years of industrial impediment standing in the way of market forces preventing the business from evolving to cope with the challenges of rising lower cost competition in which case you will eventually be marginalized.
Then you will get paid largely what you are worth.
“and on it goes...
So there you have it. Doesn't matter what, where, when or how much, just as long as you are given the opportunity then TAKE IT. Take it NOW!”
So are you suggesting you should refuse a job offer from Virgin and wait patiently for QF to step up?
“normal career progression.”
What exactly is normal career progression? Is normal defined only by you? Is there a memo defining normal that others can refer to?
“The gear lever and the flap lever on the 737 hasn't changed much in 40 years either . . .That's because Boeing got it right the first time”
Really? The gear and flap levers could be replaced by tiny little switches that weigh virtually nothing. They could even be operated through a computer interface. Just because the engineers at Boeing got it right 40 years ago does not mean it should still be employed today.
“The averages have been dragged down by these types that are prepared to accept less than what they're worth”
I am confused. Your opening comment was “You won't get paid what you're worth”. Now the system is being dragged down by someone who will accept “less than what they're worth”.
Which is it? Worth or negotiation?
“Pilot A may just scrape through the system …pilot A drives one into a mountain.”
If pilot A made it through the system and then crashed into a mountain, don’t you think there is a regulatory issue at play. Why would he crash into a mountain if he “made it through the system”?
“They decided they actually had to employ experienced western captains”
No, they were forced by the insurance underwriters to employ experienced pilots from any hemisphere. Westerners are not the only people who can fly planes.