Originally Posted by
KoruPilot
It's kind of sounding like Eva. . . this thread is getting very similar to the nankantraz forum and I am wondering if the T&C problem you guy's and gal's are having will start to affect pay. I know what they pay in Indonesia and S America, and that appears to be what's keeping Eva's aircraft flying. I'm just amazed that with all the orders they aren't worried about the downstream, not too distant future of parked hulls.
Sorry to hear it as it really should be a cherry contract all the way 'round.
Hi Koru:
It's nothing like EVA, not even close. Emirates is far better and there are many ex-EVA drivers at Emirates that would agree to that statement.
In all airline jobs, whether they be overseas or at home, the T & Cs have eroded significantly over the last 20 years. It is a continuing trend with no end in sight. Each individual will have their breaking point when enough is enough. What they do then is up to them.
Ay my carrier in the USA they started with changing the rigs back in the mid-90s. That effectively created 3 to 4 more days of work to get the same credit time. Gillegan will remember that as he was in the Union at that time. I was languishing on an 8 year furlough thanks to, among other things, the 767 pilots flying 10 hours of overtime per month at the companies request and the Union's approval ( note, not a dig on Gillegan I'm sure he was against that as he was pretty junior and not on the 767 ).
Post 9-11 the pay for the position I held dropped progressively from $110/hour to $76/hour, where it remains today. Vacation time was cut, more messing with the trip and duty rigs meant even more work to get the credit time, and the most wonderful thing of all the Pension plan was terminated. That cost most pilots high 6 to low 7 figures in lost retirement savings.
While being limited to 6 days off in a row and a
target maximum of 14 is not a step in the right direction, it isn't as bad as some of the things that have happened in my career.
Typhoonpilot