Tigerair chief Merren McArthur warns on aviation industry’s lack of diversity
Grand social experiments have no place in certain professions. Who would willingly submit to the knife of a ‘token’ surgeon? Or drill of a should-have-failed dentist?
A good friend was married to a very capable female pilot who had risen to a senior check pilot position in a major U.S. airline. She did it on equal terms with a mostly white male cohort. Then this airline decided to have a quota to include various minority and disadvantaged groups. Failure rate increased and remedial training costs blew out.
She was quite vocal in what she thought of the break down in the traditional meritocracy that had worked so well for so long.
If only the shareholders knew how wisely their money was being spent by their ‘progressive’ CEO.
A good friend was married to a very capable female pilot who had risen to a senior check pilot position in a major U.S. airline. She did it on equal terms with a mostly white male cohort. Then this airline decided to have a quota to include various minority and disadvantaged groups. Failure rate increased and remedial training costs blew out.
She was quite vocal in what she thought of the break down in the traditional meritocracy that had worked so well for so long.
If only the shareholders knew how wisely their money was being spent by their ‘progressive’ CEO.
One small note - tell me to bugger off if you like - but I liked your comment except for the use of the word 'cohort'... it's the favorite of politicians and people like MM these days - so smacks of that whole group - just an observation - I find it and things like reaching out and 'outcomes' to be tiresome.
Use of ‘cohort’ was preferable to writing “colleagues of approximately equal experience, age and seniority”. Certainly not intended to emulate PC speak.
Staff who write manuals etc should refuse to write ‘they’ or ‘their’ when the singular he, she, her, his, etc. is easier on the eye of the reader.
Staff who write manuals etc should refuse to write ‘they’ or ‘their’ when the singular he, she, her, his, etc. is easier on the eye of the reader.
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Use of ‘cohort’ was preferable to writing “colleagues of approximately equal experience, age and seniority”. Certainly not intended to emulate PC speak.
Staff who write manuals etc should refuse to write ‘they’ or ‘their’ when the singular he, she, her, his, etc. is easier on the eye of the reader.
Staff who write manuals etc should refuse to write ‘they’ or ‘their’ when the singular he, she, her, his, etc. is easier on the eye of the reader.
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The pilots award, Appendix 6, still stipulates females, and short pilots, are to be remunerated 15% less than their counterparts. This is a hangover from the testosterone filled 1970’s, and should be amended.
Can’t wait until they reomove that sexist word NOTAM from the industry and replace it with something that recognises the first people of our nation, transgender persons, the fairer sex, migrants, those with a disability, members of the NSW Labor party and any miniority group of religious and non religious persuasion, global warming sceptics, etc!
I would suggest NOTAP: NOtice To AirPersons. It would be good airpersonship to check them before flight.
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--- Person is not permissible, as it reflects (white) heterocentric bias, PerX is preferred (see Australian Government Style Guide, or whatever its present name is)
X denotes multiple genders of choice, is singular or plural, and completely devoid of any hetero-normative connotations.
As in Mx, as the recommended substitute for Mr/Mrs/Miss/Master/Ms. My "spouse equivalent" and I have both received letters, Dear Mx -------, so addressed, from Commonwealth bodies.
So, how about NOTAX ??
Tootle pip!!
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No tax would be nice but I have to admit I like the idea of roading, hospitals, benefit for people who are really having a bad run etc, so how about SUMTAX?
On topic, I agree that most people who are not a clear minority are sick to the back teeth of Australian executives wandering around tut tutting and giving ‘sage’ advice.
On topic, I agree that most people who are not a clear minority are sick to the back teeth of Australian executives wandering around tut tutting and giving ‘sage’ advice.
Can’t wait until they reomove that sexist word NOTAM from the industry and replace it with something that recognises the first people of our nation, transgender persons, the fairer sex, migrants, those with a disability, members of the NSW Labor party and any miniority group of religious and non religious persuasion, global warming sceptics, etc!
It will be interesting if any of the internal candidates get the ceo role. Given the way to joint has been managed the internal candidates cannot be anything except complicite with the incompetence, so it stands to reason that if an internal is appointed then more of the same will result.
If the major shareholders are prepared to dump money into the place then great, but a middle eastern airline who shall remain nameless has let their shareholdings in Air Berlin and Alitalia go by the wayside after they stopped being prepared to pour good money after bad, and their other major shareholding in India is reportedly close to running out of cash, so it wouldn’t seem impossible that they might get to the end of their rope at some point. Similarly with another major investor, from a nation to our north, being forced to divest themselves of assets because they are over extended, it also wouldn’t come as a great shock if they graciously declined the offer to tip in more cash.
So I would think the employees have a lot to fear from an internal getting the job. Would an external do a better job? Don’t know, it might be too late, who knows, but hopefully an external might have some perspective which is currently missing.
If the major shareholders are prepared to dump money into the place then great, but a middle eastern airline who shall remain nameless has let their shareholdings in Air Berlin and Alitalia go by the wayside after they stopped being prepared to pour good money after bad, and their other major shareholding in India is reportedly close to running out of cash, so it wouldn’t seem impossible that they might get to the end of their rope at some point. Similarly with another major investor, from a nation to our north, being forced to divest themselves of assets because they are over extended, it also wouldn’t come as a great shock if they graciously declined the offer to tip in more cash.
So I would think the employees have a lot to fear from an internal getting the job. Would an external do a better job? Don’t know, it might be too late, who knows, but hopefully an external might have some perspective which is currently missing.