Originally Posted by jetproppilot
SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL THE CEOs/FAA THAT PILOTS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT F UKKING PIECE OF THIS PIE[/B].
Again,
what am I missing here?
Without doctors, there ARE no patients....no patients for the hospitals to provide rooms/lab work/xrays/CAT scans for
Without pilots, there are no passengers to fly around the country.
Of course, patients (medicine)/passengers (airlines) are the most important. And their safety is paramount.
But again, no pilot, no takeoff.Why this position isn't reveled is making me wanna beat somebody up.
Jetprop,
Alpo does not get it and you do. An outsider to the industry and you see it clear. Truckers across America or trains stop running and it takes a couple of days for the lettuce to get brown. Planes stop flying and the nation shuts down that day. I have heard the guys that drives the barges up and down the Mississippi make $350k a year, (strong union). Pilots have never exercised their power to get what they deserve. Instead they take what the bean counters feel that they will settle for. They don’t do that with fuel because OPEC is stronger than ALPO and the plane will not fly without fuel/pilots.
To make things worse some have splintered off into separate unions away from ALPO. They became worse than the corporate guys with greed (see my late night, self pity, open wound ranting above) these pilots mistakenly aligned themselves with their corporation and not their trade. This splinter group of pilots has fatally wounded our profession for a chance at national strength, respect, and security in our trade.
Mach8Forest
