Corporate Dude
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- Sep 10, 2004
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Hey y'all
Yesterday afternoon I found myself in an hotel elevator with 2 FLOPS pilots. They were both in the BE-400.
I mistakenly asked what the deal was with the layoffs and the one pilot went into a 30 sec dissertation about the:
drum roll please:
union pilots vs the company pilots. (surprise)
The basis of his argument was that the reason that FLOPS laid off was because there is only a certain amount of owners enrolled in the program. When these "union types" continue to break airplanes and write everything up under the sun at the last minute, you cancel flights. When you cancel flights you piss off owners and when you piss off owners, you loose them, in turn losing revenue and not flying the aircraft as much, in turn not needing as many pilots. Cough, cough.
He then turned and left the elevator. Obviously he is not a pro-union supporter.
My question stands as is the dissension in the pilot group still going on at FLOPS or is this guy living in a past time and is only an isolated case of disgust?
Continuing, is the reason that 100+ pilots were laid off is because some pilots continue to fly, dare I say it "the pledge" and drive owners away?
IF this is true, and I were one of the laid of pilots, I would be irate to say the least. Were is the "one for all and all for one" mentality in Cleveland, Ohio?
In closing, I am sure this will start a sh!t storm which I do not mean to do.
I just thought it was ironic that when passing a totally anonymous FLOPS pilot (that still is employed mind you) he went on a rampage like this after just being asked a simple question, basically blaming everyone that ever wrote up an airplane at the last minute, legitimate or not.
Yesterday afternoon I found myself in an hotel elevator with 2 FLOPS pilots. They were both in the BE-400.
I mistakenly asked what the deal was with the layoffs and the one pilot went into a 30 sec dissertation about the:
drum roll please:
union pilots vs the company pilots. (surprise)
The basis of his argument was that the reason that FLOPS laid off was because there is only a certain amount of owners enrolled in the program. When these "union types" continue to break airplanes and write everything up under the sun at the last minute, you cancel flights. When you cancel flights you piss off owners and when you piss off owners, you loose them, in turn losing revenue and not flying the aircraft as much, in turn not needing as many pilots. Cough, cough.
He then turned and left the elevator. Obviously he is not a pro-union supporter.
My question stands as is the dissension in the pilot group still going on at FLOPS or is this guy living in a past time and is only an isolated case of disgust?
Continuing, is the reason that 100+ pilots were laid off is because some pilots continue to fly, dare I say it "the pledge" and drive owners away?
IF this is true, and I were one of the laid of pilots, I would be irate to say the least. Were is the "one for all and all for one" mentality in Cleveland, Ohio?
In closing, I am sure this will start a sh!t storm which I do not mean to do.
I just thought it was ironic that when passing a totally anonymous FLOPS pilot (that still is employed mind you) he went on a rampage like this after just being asked a simple question, basically blaming everyone that ever wrote up an airplane at the last minute, legitimate or not.