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Obscene lottery
As long as we have this obscene lottery situation where airlines will not commit to anything and desparate young pilots have to train themselves, then hang around and wait with hundreds of others hoping to "hit the jackpot" and get that mythical, prestigeous, highly paid skygod job, we will have pilots working for nothing and destroying GA.
How many major airlines have pilots working for nothing???? What would happen if they did???
What if one airline company insisted that it's pilots were required to organise an income stream to pay their own wages and expenses???? It happens in GA.
What if one airline was operating into an area where other people were required to have a permit to go??? And they were also able to influence the pax bookings that were made????
What if one company was able to buy expensive aircraft with government financial support and raise money from public donations then tender for government contracts against others who did not???
And lots of other things.
Does our Government favour all these things so they can get cheap flying???
Is any of this fair trading????
Are there any "not for profit" major airlines in Australia??
AOC's should not be issued to "not for profit" organisations. AOC's are for "commercial" operations and that means having a profit motive and standing on their own feet
And they should pay their pilots properly, if they want proper pilots. You do not get proper pilots unless
there is proper pay. In the commercial world pilots get paid what they are worth. Some work for nothing.
There is nothing wrong with club members working part time for nothing in a bona fide club on a genuine private operation for the common good. This does not mean providing services for paid passenger transport under an AOC.
However there must be clear definitions of operations of what is what. It is very vague, and being exploited at the moment.
If these things are fixed our very important GA industry may grow again.
How many major airlines have pilots working for nothing???? What would happen if they did???
What if one airline company insisted that it's pilots were required to organise an income stream to pay their own wages and expenses???? It happens in GA.
What if one airline was operating into an area where other people were required to have a permit to go??? And they were also able to influence the pax bookings that were made????
What if one company was able to buy expensive aircraft with government financial support and raise money from public donations then tender for government contracts against others who did not???
And lots of other things.
Does our Government favour all these things so they can get cheap flying???
Is any of this fair trading????
Are there any "not for profit" major airlines in Australia??
AOC's should not be issued to "not for profit" organisations. AOC's are for "commercial" operations and that means having a profit motive and standing on their own feet
And they should pay their pilots properly, if they want proper pilots. You do not get proper pilots unless
there is proper pay. In the commercial world pilots get paid what they are worth. Some work for nothing.
There is nothing wrong with club members working part time for nothing in a bona fide club on a genuine private operation for the common good. This does not mean providing services for paid passenger transport under an AOC.
However there must be clear definitions of operations of what is what. It is very vague, and being exploited at the moment.
If these things are fixed our very important GA industry may grow again.
