flyhighordie
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- Joined
- Aug 16, 2006
- Posts
- 10
I have not checked this board for some time and spent the last day reading back all kinds of stuff people have posted from contract stealing to rfp's to what pilot group is bad and who is good. what is extremely agonizing is i am realizing each day that we as pilot professionals are losing our ethics and allegiance to one another. we take stabs at one another when in fact the CORPORATE manager is sipping the coffee taking long lunches being able to take the afternoon off to go to the dentist making the decisions to undercut another company for the simple pleasure of placing a stake in the ground and calling it success.
what do we do???? we take it, for what reason i don't know besides the love of flying or the simple fact that we enjoy the abuse. my father is a retired pilot from the pool of guys where it used to be a respected rewarded profession. 15 days off, good pay, good benefits. i talked to him about this and he feels we as pilots are doing it to ourselves. WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!
we blame delta for stress and fatigue, we blame CHQ for taking on new flying, but unless we could all unite and make that useless ALPA union and dues woth somethig and perhaps all of us across the board decide not to go to work one day, i think it would create a national crisis. i think the government would wake up and realize that the fuel tax imposed on airlines makes it nearly imposible to opperate, and until the general public in this country realizes that paying $199 roundtrip to Disney World is the same price payed in the 80's and are willing to pay at least an inflated price on pace with everything else such as milk and bread, the airlines will compete for the customer and take it out of us. its useless for us to be angry with each other, its time to reflect and look at what our schedules have become and our duty times and divide that paycheck and realize we are far below the poverty level. don't blame GO JET or MEsa, they would not be in business without pilots. management gets paid equally everywhere wheather you manage a record shop, a bank or an airline. LETS blame ourselves for a change, look in the mirror in the morning and realize we are supposed to be rational, cognitive individuals equipped with good decission making ability and willigness to take responsibility for our actions and the lives we transport.
in closure, I blame myself, and if i get enough feedback out of this post, i will start a website, no membership required, non profit, to see what we can do for ourselves and our fellow men and women, without blaming each other or the companies. we have the contracts we know the contracts the airlines can't fly without us, and ATP can't train a pilot in 90 days like they claim.
write any thoughts, but don't blame any company for screwing us, write a positive approach to what we can do, and we can DO IT>>>>
what do we do???? we take it, for what reason i don't know besides the love of flying or the simple fact that we enjoy the abuse. my father is a retired pilot from the pool of guys where it used to be a respected rewarded profession. 15 days off, good pay, good benefits. i talked to him about this and he feels we as pilots are doing it to ourselves. WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!
we blame delta for stress and fatigue, we blame CHQ for taking on new flying, but unless we could all unite and make that useless ALPA union and dues woth somethig and perhaps all of us across the board decide not to go to work one day, i think it would create a national crisis. i think the government would wake up and realize that the fuel tax imposed on airlines makes it nearly imposible to opperate, and until the general public in this country realizes that paying $199 roundtrip to Disney World is the same price payed in the 80's and are willing to pay at least an inflated price on pace with everything else such as milk and bread, the airlines will compete for the customer and take it out of us. its useless for us to be angry with each other, its time to reflect and look at what our schedules have become and our duty times and divide that paycheck and realize we are far below the poverty level. don't blame GO JET or MEsa, they would not be in business without pilots. management gets paid equally everywhere wheather you manage a record shop, a bank or an airline. LETS blame ourselves for a change, look in the mirror in the morning and realize we are supposed to be rational, cognitive individuals equipped with good decission making ability and willigness to take responsibility for our actions and the lives we transport.
in closure, I blame myself, and if i get enough feedback out of this post, i will start a website, no membership required, non profit, to see what we can do for ourselves and our fellow men and women, without blaming each other or the companies. we have the contracts we know the contracts the airlines can't fly without us, and ATP can't train a pilot in 90 days like they claim.
write any thoughts, but don't blame any company for screwing us, write a positive approach to what we can do, and we can DO IT>>>>
