"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Gandhi
As O'Leary on bended knee is learning..
O'Leary had accused pilots of being “precious about themselves” and “full of their own self-importance”, adding: “I would challenge any pilot to explain how this is a difficult job or how it is they are overworked, or how anybody who by law can’t fly more than 18 hours a week could possibly be suffering from fatigue.”
It is only a few years ago, Joyce told Qantas pilots they were kamikazes..
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PR witch Wirth stating they wanted first class travel and massages during the 2011 dispute....
It is the IR model;denigration and derision.
Longreach are doing what professional bodies do; control supply.
Sadly to airline management with embedded adversarial IR models to them as hammers, every problem is a nail..
This is a structural shortage not cyclical.