Originally Posted by
EGGY1
Surely, if the general consensus among the pilots of these 2 companies is that they are being forced by company culture to endanger lives, they owe it to their families and thousands of unsuspecting pax to have spoken up collectively with supporting evidence and legal advice. If things are truly as bad for all concerned, perhaps rather suffer a few months of relative hardship without a job than risk it all.
Whistle-blowing is commendable, but not as effective incognito and after the fact. As long as people are more afraid of losing their jobs than they are of the perceived consequences of keeping them, they will not be taken seriously.
EGGY I don't suppose that it would occur to you that this is something that everyone was aware off. The every department knows, HR, internal audit, crewing, operations everyone there are mountains of ASRs and there is no shortage of pilots with stories.
The culture of fear, intimidation and bullying is so large that the threats from the managment have grown to counter it. They can and have stopped visas, held passports, prevented famiies (yes wives and children) from leaving UAE if non disclosure agreements are not signed.
The press have been given the story numerous times back to the hunting knife incident being suppressed from the Kabul flight to many many more stories of FTL "boundaries", rostering into dicsretion, not off loading pax who sexually assault cabin crew, not off laoding pax full stop when the cmdr has alady made the decision, telling you not to go or to go, telling you not to divert or divert.
Sadly no one listened until now. They are and remain above the law, no one in power in Dubai cares and no one wants to listen.
At the end of the day the CPs favourite phrase is ,"If you don't like it, leave" so guess what, people eventually just leave. I do not understand why thse in real power in Dubai allow this to happen but thier own departments GCAA, Labour, Internal Affairs and Legal Affairs have numerous cases where the above have been cited. They have chosen to sidleine the pilots involved and mostly let them leave quietly or in a fewer cases noisily.