I have a friend who flies for Qantas. Apparently Qantas has been hiring pilots from NZ for less money, putting them in a Qantas uniform, and having them fly regional Qantas planes. This has become a point of contention in pilot contract negotiations.
the Qantas pilots contend that the sterling safety record of the airline is due in no small part to the training Qantas puts their pilots through, and that it is disingenuous to allow non Qantas-trained pilots to wear a Qantas pilot uniform flying a Qantas plane. the idea is Qantas plane, Qantas pilot. there are probably other things like contracted work hour restrictions that these non Qantas pilots can avoid, making them cheaper, but potentially less safe. Anyway I was reminded of all this watching the delta video. not sure how it is turning out down under with Qantas, but obviously this Norwegian guy is just taking the whole concept of pilot labor outsourcing to its logical extreme. Personally I'll pay a bit more to keep the well trained, well fed, well rested guys in the cockpit. there are just too many things that can go wrong, like hitting the wall in San Francisco, or the rookie and high altitude stall on air France 443. Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Hendrik and Fay <heni...@gmail.com> Date:03/02/2014 7:29 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Norwegian Air Shuttle Scheme I have not fully looked into it but Qantas is bleating about their competitors getting assistance from their governments, how much truth there is to that I do not know. Hendrik who gets a little assistance from the government On 03/03/14 03:05, G Mann wrote: > In nature, predators always take the weak from the herd first. In open > competition, only the strong win. In government imposed "diversity" that > natural balance is skewed. By government mandate, the banks that failed > were saved, Solandra got loans, government employees who don't produce are > retained and promoted........ By Congressional edict, a certain portion of > the work force must be hired and retained based on some physical attribute > other than job skill. We are then taxed to servitude to pay for all of > this social engineering under the guise of "it's for the public good". > And we wonder why the world is out of balance? > > In my considered opine, it equates to castrating your self because your > neighbor has to many children. Not logical to natures rule of survival. > > Grant... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
