acaTerry
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From the DEC 2005 issue of Business Jet Traveller:
I am sick and tired of the ongoing saga regarding IBT1108 versus NetJets' management.
The dipute is settled for now, but I am appaled that it has taken so long for these two groups to come to a decision. This does not bode well for the future of NetJets, or their competition.
I suggest the union send copies of Thomas L. Friedman'sbook, The world is Flat, to all its members. They might learn something about the competitive world we live in.
I have more than a million air miles under my belt and, from my perspective, the same fine folks who brought us, in no small part, the collapse of the major airlines will execute the slow death of the fractional operators. I've been privy to more than one overheard conversation in which airline flight crews bragged about how they'd manipulated work rules to maximize time off while at the same time maximizing pay. Who do they think pays for all that waste, slippage and gaming of the work rules? The travellers do, and eventually they tire of it.
No one put a gun to the head of any of these pilots to go work for NetJets and if the deal and working conditions are so bad, they should resign. If no one qualified steps up to relace them, then I guess NetJets will have to up the ante and soften the work rules for the available pool of pilots. However, I don't think that will be necessary.
Samual R. Kephart
CEO
Virtual Acumen Corp.
Spearfish, SD
Now don't get me wrong. I am happy at NJA. But this guy is shining in his ignorance. He is appalled that we thought $27,000 a year was not fair for a pilot with the highest of qualifications? I would like to see how he suggests we support our families and pay our bills on that. Would HE work for that? Is he aware that mismanagement, CEOs, are what got the airlines in trouble? That a CEO's severence package ALONE is worth more than a careers earnings for todays professional pilot?
I suggest all NJA pilots on this board, and especially NetJetWife, who always has a way to express the "unseens" of the families of pilots, to either send a rebuttal to the magazine or to the individual who wrote it, to educate and correct him on this malicious and unfounded tyrade.
What a rotten guy.
I am sick and tired of the ongoing saga regarding IBT1108 versus NetJets' management.
The dipute is settled for now, but I am appaled that it has taken so long for these two groups to come to a decision. This does not bode well for the future of NetJets, or their competition.
I suggest the union send copies of Thomas L. Friedman'sbook, The world is Flat, to all its members. They might learn something about the competitive world we live in.
I have more than a million air miles under my belt and, from my perspective, the same fine folks who brought us, in no small part, the collapse of the major airlines will execute the slow death of the fractional operators. I've been privy to more than one overheard conversation in which airline flight crews bragged about how they'd manipulated work rules to maximize time off while at the same time maximizing pay. Who do they think pays for all that waste, slippage and gaming of the work rules? The travellers do, and eventually they tire of it.
No one put a gun to the head of any of these pilots to go work for NetJets and if the deal and working conditions are so bad, they should resign. If no one qualified steps up to relace them, then I guess NetJets will have to up the ante and soften the work rules for the available pool of pilots. However, I don't think that will be necessary.
Samual R. Kephart
CEO
Virtual Acumen Corp.
Spearfish, SD
Now don't get me wrong. I am happy at NJA. But this guy is shining in his ignorance. He is appalled that we thought $27,000 a year was not fair for a pilot with the highest of qualifications? I would like to see how he suggests we support our families and pay our bills on that. Would HE work for that? Is he aware that mismanagement, CEOs, are what got the airlines in trouble? That a CEO's severence package ALONE is worth more than a careers earnings for todays professional pilot?
I suggest all NJA pilots on this board, and especially NetJetWife, who always has a way to express the "unseens" of the families of pilots, to either send a rebuttal to the magazine or to the individual who wrote it, to educate and correct him on this malicious and unfounded tyrade.
What a rotten guy.
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