Hello boys!

Looks like you lads have a lot of issues.

A couple of observations if I may..

1. My understanding (very limited), is that SAA pilot packages are where they are today, because international salary benchmarks were part of the negotiation process.

2. The helicopter industry lost a lot of experience to the more lucrative national carrier, which had a positive effect on the back-pockets of the remaining chopper pilots.

3. At the moment, many South African chopper pilots are being lured internationally, for tax free packages that are putting even more pressure on local operators to raise their game.

No strikes or unions, just good old fashioned supply & demand.

As with any other business, attempts by either the employer or the employee to interfere with this process usually ends in tears.

I'm thinking that perhaps the pilots have the upper hand, but I'm holding off on my new Ferrari for the time being.

:ok:

Ah well, i tried....


I wonder what Adam Savage would think about this bunch of spoilt brats.

Who Is The Spoilt Brat
 

This thread has gone way off track but the new title seems to fit as this JETNUT seems to be a WOW ( WALK ON WATER) type that knows better than anyone else.

Tell me do you also fly better than everyone else at SAA too. I wonder what your captains have to say...........................:ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

J-Nut,

Sorry - I was a bit slow. It wasn't all philosophy 101, it was from a song by the Waterboys: "I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon!"

"...spoilt brats"? Speak for yourself, boyo.

JetNut there may be any number of perceptions but only ever one reality upon which those perceptions are based. Smoke and mirrors my friend, but reflections and obfuscations conceal or deflect perceptions only... the reality remains the object.

Could that reality soon read something like "Reuters London - South African Airways have confirmed an order for another 12 Tu-154 medium haul airliners as staff complements are further reduced by another 3000 comrades...." ??

Yeah Yeah....since when does Ariana and Royal Jordanian use SA pilots or pay their pilots in South Africa...just by your opening sentence I can tell your a looser with no chance at getting in to a proper airline...Solenta might make a profit, but only 90% of their pax make it back to earth...ALIVE...the do crash more often mate.

Now welcome back and now crawl back to your under paid over worked job!!!:} :} :}

P.S Let me know when you are going to De ice next

Cheers

So. Looking back on threads like this... is educational to say the least.