highcirrus
On the button highcirrus. You're post is excellent and an accurate summing up of the situation. Long overdue for something in this vein to appear in all of the local press and I hope the representatives of ALPA-S are equally eloquent at the hearing next week.
If there is an ounce of justice present in the arbitration court the judge will throw out SIA's proposals on the basis of the points raised by yourself and others and the fact that the pilots and cabin crew have already contributed to major savings by virtue of reduced flying hour related income.
The present pilots salary scheme was the eventual outcome of negotiations started nearly five years ago and is that far out of date. A reduction from that level is preposterous!
If there is a genuine concern to come into line with the government target of not more than 1.5 times basic salary for senior employees doing the same job as juniors then the place for that is within the next round of collective agreement talks.
The judge should bang a few heads together and send everyone back to the office to grow up and get on with making up the losses, and on into profit, on the basis of professional airline management as opposed to bleeding the staff.
Relations between staff and company have been severely damaged. Trust has been destroyed. This nonsense should be stopped before any further damage is done.