Sorry Cobber, had a few tinnies before I writ that one and I carn't hardly believe it meself this mornin. But anyways its probly more than the skills pilots are gunna be needin' in the for see able future I reackon.
I'm rellly wonderin which way she's gunna go ya know. Are youse all gonna be wearin' blue singlets and thongs like that that other fella suggested, or are ya gonna become sort of "specialists" - you know, less of ya, but more money?
Almost looks ta me that a lot of the way things ave gone is due ta this "global village" bullsh!t. Used to be that only Anglo-Saxon decendents flew airaplanes, wearin their white shirts, gold epalets, and wings, and the peak cap worn at jus the right tilt, with the Ray Bans.
Today ya got all races polin' the big jets and competin' for any jobs that come up. Course we know that the non western world pilots fly for LOTS less than youse do - well usta!
Not now tho'. Your saleries ave gone down an theirs' as gone up.
Maybe its a lot to do with the super dooper technology(!) that the airoplane makers ave been able to in-corprate.
Course its made a helluva lot arder on the western airlines operatin International too asn't it. Non western countries can oprate on a much lower cost base structure because most of em pay their workers peanuts by our standards - the money most of youse get in one month is probly like a whole bl00dy years wages for them poor beggars!!
But the passengers sittin up in the big new Boeing or Hairbus dont know, or even think about that, their way to busy eatin their tucker and drinkin the free p!ss, payin for their accomadation with the bikkies they saved buyin it from this airline steada the big Q or BA.
Can ya imagine ow much the airline I was just talkin about is creamin tho. If the big Q can turn a profit and pay aller youse pilots, hosties, bag humpers, ticket punchers, clerks, and the like normal Ozzie saleries, then the other airlines who pay cr@p must be stackin it away!
Good ol Dicko n Jacko could pick up a real nice coupla cool mill in bonuses if they could get youse down to 3rd world wages.
Only a coupla things standin in their way tho at the moment - the govaments minamum wages for full-time workers, and them bl00dy unions - but their workin REAL hard to get rid o them.
But hey, stick ya heads in the sand and pretend it ain't appenin'.
But don't come whingin and whinin round ere in a coupla years time. The playin fields bein levelled a lot faster now than it has been in the past - kinda like a snowball rolling down a hill.
Dunno what youse kin do about it before it gets too late. Reackon its just about in-evatable now when ya look at the whole thing.
See youse round!