Originally Posted by
jack schidt
Hi,
To those who may want to trawl my previous posts, I am like you all and wish to express my concerns about my profession here in the ME. However, RT and other media has the information that many people have wished they had long ago and it is being processed. Here in the ME (UAE), your family resides in a safe environment and your children's education costs are mostly met along with the villa and free utilities payments. I appreciate that your working conditions are far from desirable, currently......
We all know that things need to change and that only a tragedy would (has) bring about such a change (we all hope change will happen in the future). Rather than continuing the daily onslaught at the ME companies here, I say pilots should show some restraint (do the right thing) and wait to see what is happening (changes) before making any further slanderous statements.
TRYING TO do the right thing and wait for company action before spouting off here when no one knows positive steps might be happening.
If you think you are above the nonsense then I hope us pilots can come together for positive change rather than just gripes.
J
Jack, as someone who has been involved in the WSJ article and other efforts I am sorry to tell you that we have to use this window of opportunity. I have personally written dozens of detailed reports complete with evidence about the check-in scam which you criticize in another thread as well. I have contacted aviation authorities, media, several unions etc. The outcome has been one article before the crash. The public is not interested unless there is blood. Sad truth.
And if next week the probable cause is determined to be some broken Boeing piece our window of opportunity will close again.
The other parties in this game have billions of marketing dollars: EK, Boeing, UAE, Russia. But the dead pilots don't. They only have their five seconds of fame. I truly believe that it is in their interest if we use this moment to improve crew health and flight safety.
In my opinion no lies have been told by the pilots. Just the tip of the iceberg. The real iceberg is that safety has become optional. If you don't have enough airplanes you can't fly more routes. If you don't have enough pilots you just overwork them.
So I couldn't disagree more with the let's wait and see approach. Sorry, we are running an illegal operation and definitely have to continue doing so over the summer because profitability is a must and safety is optional. Maybe we will start to legalize things 6 months from now. But only if we can afford it.
F@ck that. If you don't have enough drivers then cut the programme. Tough luck if you lose money. Nobody forced you to bet your company on an illegal business model.