Why those 49?
Joined: Apr 2002
Aviation Qualifications: PPL
Posts: 734
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From: Australia
I take your points. Sorry you feel like a pin cushion. Perhaps my views would be different if I were a decade younger.
Yes, I probably have been 'listening' to a different cross-section of staff. The ones who go out of their way to help me when I need a favour and expect nothing more than a thank you and a smile in return. The ones who have to deal with the ten percent of grumpy pax with excess baggage at the check-in counters and the guys who run around the tarmac in the stinking heat.
Unfortunately airline management the world over is striving for the the lowest common cost denominator. A fact of life and a trend that no union can arrest or public/government sympathy influence (read lack thereof). As you would have noticed in your time here, management needs to do very little to turn us into a bunch of cannibals.
I will predict, now, that you will get your money back early next year if things stay on track. If not I will willingly acknowledge that I have been smoking the funny stuff.
While the AOA may see agreement to SLS as a bargaining chip, there was really no choice at the time. Noone likes to hear the cold truth but the AOA in its current form will not be able to claw back any significant influence over company policy.
OTT, certainly, but as I said, entirely predictable, except by those who were gambling with your livelihood.
Perhaps we can agree to disagree and hope for better wx in 2004.
All the best.
Yes, I probably have been 'listening' to a different cross-section of staff. The ones who go out of their way to help me when I need a favour and expect nothing more than a thank you and a smile in return. The ones who have to deal with the ten percent of grumpy pax with excess baggage at the check-in counters and the guys who run around the tarmac in the stinking heat.
Unfortunately airline management the world over is striving for the the lowest common cost denominator. A fact of life and a trend that no union can arrest or public/government sympathy influence (read lack thereof). As you would have noticed in your time here, management needs to do very little to turn us into a bunch of cannibals.
I will predict, now, that you will get your money back early next year if things stay on track. If not I will willingly acknowledge that I have been smoking the funny stuff.
While the AOA may see agreement to SLS as a bargaining chip, there was really no choice at the time. Noone likes to hear the cold truth but the AOA in its current form will not be able to claw back any significant influence over company policy.
OTT, certainly, but as I said, entirely predictable, except by those who were gambling with your livelihood.
Perhaps we can agree to disagree and hope for better wx in 2004.
All the best.
Last edited by VR-HFX; 17th September 2003 at 07:41.
