Airlines Cut Minimum Pilot Experience to 500 hours and Below

Tina wrote in
:

I think unions are in many cases a demonstration that inept management
was at work.

Mmm, not really. There was a definite management style, though. I
suppose the union as started in the early days because of inept
management, though.

A union chair, huh? What style chair were you-- shaker?
No, they were not union, so you wouldn't have been in the early
American, style, either.

Ah, French!

Or electric.

Yeah, electric, a style not known for subtlity. Bertie, the Electric
Chair. That has a nice ring to it.


I wish. I was in opposition to one of the most infamous chief execs in
the industry. An electric chair would have been nice, actually.

The things I saw you would not believe. The second two most horrific
years of my life. Had to be done though, and I will definitely stand by
the statement I made earlier about safety most definitely being enhanced
by our membership.
There;s a world of difference between a bus drivers' union and a
pilot's, though. Most of what I was involved in was safety. Duty hours,
food availability, training expenditure. All airlines would like to
minimise their cost in these areas. How do you feel about having a pilot
that got that 5% less training or who's so tired he can't see straight?


Bertie



Bertie