Originally Posted by
b52dthdlr
what do you suggest, that ALPA allow the company and vendors to violate our contract? our contract was written to protect us. allowing the company and others to ignore it for the sake of expediency and profit or worse, just so that we can fly a neat airplane would be foolish and have consequences far beyond this issue. tell me, what "show" are you referring to?
We can start with the flight engineer on the 737, then move to the 2-man 767. UAL actually got a 3-man 767 sim before the plane was certified. I was in that sim for my interview sim ride. It was eventually rebuilt to a 767-300.
Those are the kinds of things that can shoot us in the foot if we insist on something that the rest of the industry doesn't go along with.