Originally Posted by
JonGoodsell764
No one here is angry or red in the face. In fact it seems you are the one most frustrated that no one agrees with your garbage. US airlines flying to the EU use American flight crews. EU airlines flying to the US use EU flight crews. NAI flies from the EU to the US using an irish flag and crews from Bangkok. I personally don't care to hear your or anyone else's logic behind their hiring practices so keep pounding your drum until you're red in the face, glad they're done. I also hope and suspect that no US based carrier will hire any of these labor undercutting hacks either.
NAI did not use any Bangkok flight crews. The only crew base in BKK was a 787 crew base, which was operated by NAS, not NAI. That is lie number 1 that ALPA sold to you in their cartoon, Norwegian did not require a new Irish based AOC to open a BKK crew base, they were able to do that just fine with the Norwegian based AOC. There was only one pilot in BKK who was not a citizen of an EU/EEA country, and he was Australian. ALPA conveniently forgot to tell you that in their cartoon. As for the theory that the purpose of BKK was to screw labor by having lower costs, the BKK pilot base was closed almost two years ago as it was determined to not be cost effective and was always the smallest 787 base, behind LGW, CPH, CDG, FCO, BCN and even FLL. If it were cost effective, and served the purpose of screwing labor, it doesn't make any sense to keep it so small and then ultimately close it.
For the record, as of January 2018, the 787 pilot seniority list for Norwegian showed the following nationality breakdown:
115 Norwegians
112 Dutch
110 British
90 Swedish
81 Danish
60 German
47 French
42 Italian
30 Belgian
27 Spanish
23 Irish
20 American
19 Austrian
13 Finnish
10 Swiss
6 Portugal
2 Czech
2 Hungarian
2 Latvian
1 Australian
1 Canadian
1 Lithuanian
Outside of the 1 Australian and 1 Canadian, they were all European or American.