LXApilot
Owes More Than He Makes
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2003
- Posts
- 262
I agree that pilot's jobs are some of the most highly skilled, highly scrutinized, and highly stressing jobs in the entire World. And pilot's wages do not reflect this, nor do they compensate them properly for what they do to get the traveling public to their destination on a daily basis.
I also do not shop at Wal-Mart, or Sam's Club. And I believe that no other American should be a customer of their stores either. I also do not purchase airline tickets on Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, or any other 'LCC'.
But shame on this poster for blaming labor and the unions for the demise of the airline industry. When sharing your vast knowledge of all the great things the airlines have done for the American people, be sure next time to also include a few examples of what organized labor has done for working people, especially pilots, in this great nation! It is the predetory tactics of the LCC, uncontrollable events (ie. terrorism, price of fuel), inept management, and unloyal consumers that have led to the demise of the Legacy carriers. NOT organized labor. I want the majors to put the LCC's out of business too, but that isn't going to happen. Capitalism and the free and open market determine everything here in the grand USA. If there are always a bunch of idiotic lombotomized DCA, Embry Riddle, Pan Am Academy rats running around taking any flying job for McDonalds pay then that is what the market price will be for pilots, and management will respect us the same as they do a drive thru clerk at the golden arches. I don't like it- and eventually- if the pay get's low enough- Many of us will have to find something else to do with our time. And the LCC's will grow and flourish in the coming years until people decide they do not want to "wal-martinize" the airline industry. Until that happens, we are stuck with SW and JB landing in front of me all the time at my airport. And that, dear thread starter, is the REAL 'American' way.
I also do not shop at Wal-Mart, or Sam's Club. And I believe that no other American should be a customer of their stores either. I also do not purchase airline tickets on Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, or any other 'LCC'.
But shame on this poster for blaming labor and the unions for the demise of the airline industry. When sharing your vast knowledge of all the great things the airlines have done for the American people, be sure next time to also include a few examples of what organized labor has done for working people, especially pilots, in this great nation! It is the predetory tactics of the LCC, uncontrollable events (ie. terrorism, price of fuel), inept management, and unloyal consumers that have led to the demise of the Legacy carriers. NOT organized labor. I want the majors to put the LCC's out of business too, but that isn't going to happen. Capitalism and the free and open market determine everything here in the grand USA. If there are always a bunch of idiotic lombotomized DCA, Embry Riddle, Pan Am Academy rats running around taking any flying job for McDonalds pay then that is what the market price will be for pilots, and management will respect us the same as they do a drive thru clerk at the golden arches. I don't like it- and eventually- if the pay get's low enough- Many of us will have to find something else to do with our time. And the LCC's will grow and flourish in the coming years until people decide they do not want to "wal-martinize" the airline industry. Until that happens, we are stuck with SW and JB landing in front of me all the time at my airport. And that, dear thread starter, is the REAL 'American' way.