Do you think YOUR airline's mgmt. is watching this???

[Green Banana]

I bet they write a sternly worded letter.

 

[vtwo]

SO WHAT?
Why are you United guys getting you panties in a Bundle?
it is not your flights. not your planes, not your jobs.

do you think that ALL flights that get sold from the United web site should be flown by United pilots?

they are just increasing revenue with out increasing cost.

Just like all Majors do with the RJ's, they sub contract that too, except now it is a bigger jet.
why the Noise, the precedent has already been set.
Soon all large airlines will just be ticket brokers selling transport to people then finding some chump to fly them at the lowest cost. Much like trucking company's that hire independent contractor's/ owner/ operator's
TOOOOOOO late the cat is out of the bag

HAppy Landings

 

[bluefin]

SO WHAT?
Why are you United guys getting you panties in a Bundle?
it is not your flights. not your planes, not your jobs.

do you think that ALL flights that get sold from the United web site should be flown by United pilots?

they are just increasing revenue with out increasing cost.

Just like all Majors do with the RJ's, they sub contract that too, except now it is a bigger jet.
why the Noise, the precedent has already been set.
Soon all large airlines will just be ticket brokers selling transport to people then finding some chump to fly them at the lowest cost. Much like trucking company's that hire independent contractor's/ owner/ operator's
TOOOOOOO late the cat is out of the bag

HAppy Landings

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa.......yes!!!!! They used to be. This is a way of getting around what ever is left of a contract.

 

[doh]

Management reserves the right to run a business and make money period!

If that is a true statement, then why the FH don't they ever make money!!!!?

 

[olympus593]

at no point have pilots been brought in to fly a United Airlines-owned aircraft while UAL pilots are on furlough.

It's not an United Airlines-owned aircraft (they don't have any A330 ) and as disgusting as it is it doesn't even come close to the damage RAH has caused to the industry.

 

[scoreboardII]

Next up, aircrew "flown" into the US to fly domestic legs then flown back to their 3rd world hovels. All for 1/3 cost. It won't be cabatoge, it will be pilotage.

 

[NEDude]

Next up, aircrew "flown" into the US to fly domestic legs then flown back to their 3rd world hovels. All for 1/3 cost. It won't be cabatoge, it will be pilotage.

I guess I do not get statements like these. Third world countries do not have enough pilots to cover flying in the USA. There is a reason there are a few dozen crew leasing companies and several airlines actively recruiting American pilots and offering them far greater pay and benefits than can be had at a US carrier, because the third world needs American (and other nationalities as well) pilots badly. There is a good chance those airplanes from Emirates, Qatar, Cathay, Etihad, Air India, Singapore, JAL, Korean, Asiana, Etihad, Jet Airways that you see in places like JFK, EWR, and ORD are flown by American pilots. Pilots in other countries have to worry about American pilots coming and taking their jobs, not the other way around.

 

[BOOZENEWS]

I guess I do not get statements like these. Third world countries do not have enough pilots to cover flying in the USA. There is a reason there are a few dozen crew leasing companies and several airlines actively recruiting American pilots and offering them far greater pay and benefits than can be had at a US carrier, because the third world needs American (and other nationalities as well) pilots badly. There is a good chance those airplanes from Emirates, Qatar, Cathay, Etihad, Air India, Singapore, JAL, Korean, Asiana, Etihad, Jet Airways that you see in places like JFK, EWR, and ORD are flown by American pilots. Pilots in other countries have to worry about American pilots coming and taking their jobs, not the other way around.

Finally someone who gets it

 

[NEDude]

Finally someone who gets it

Well 'get it' is a bit of a stretch. But I think the issue will get even worse for third world countries, not better. Before 9/11 it was much easier for a foreigner to come to the USA for flight training. Several schools existed just for the purpose of training third world pilots. There are far less foriegners coming to the USA for training (they do still exist but not in nearly the numbers they used to) yet aviation continues to grow in their home countries. Getting training in other western countries is far more expensive and most of their home countries do not have any flight training infrastructure to speak of. I heard India issued just over 100 new pilots licenses (not conversions) in 2007. For a country of over a billion people, that is virtually non-existent.

 

[Bringupthebird]

The future of the piloting profession will be about 50 guys in uniform lined up outside a Starbucks near the airport when a guy in a pickup with UAL on the door drives up and says he needs 8 guys to fly the morning bank out of ORD and the 8 run over and jump in the back with their flight bags. Behind him is a truck with the AA bird on the side and the driver holds up 4 fingers.

Two illegals blowing leaves nearby see this and comment "That's what's wrong weeth America." "Si".