Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Well, for the interest of staying on topic we could start by getting ALPA to publicly denounce any & every PFT 121 Airline Programs. Scrap that whole philosophy of taking in and supporting every pilot, maybe we should only support companies and pilots who see eye to eye with where QOL and Compensation Standards should be.
We can start with that...
Sure, why not, lets denounce anyone who doesnt see eye to eye with us, and while we are at it, we can try to divide pilots even further...then next we can start JS wars, and ignore(or argue) with each other in the terminals, yeah that will make the flying public really confident in us as a profession....
Or mabye when the mass retirements ,that they slowed with the age 65 rule, hit again we can watch our airlines park airplanes and lose money, then they can go throught the revolving door of chapter 11 over and over, eliminating any chance to make a profit, profit by the way that we could use to go after better pay on the next contract negotiation. Oh and just for fun, we can start denouncing people for their religion, or politics. JUST because you dont like PFT, does not mean it doesnt work or that the pilots that went that route dont take this profession and safety just as seriously as you do....You guys are like a mob mentality. There are a bunch of problems facing the industry today, but the biggest one is every pilot needs to start looking in the mirror before they start looking to place blame quickly.
You do not have to believe it but I guarantee fully half of the pilots hired in the last 12 or so years, by definition went the PFT route, whether 141 school, CFI pilot mills type school, 121 airline, ect. By the definition you guys all speak of the only qualified pilots were the ones who trained part 61 all the way through. My question is, are you just going to drive the wedges into the pilot group even further, because it makes you lots of friends on APC. Have we become such a group of followers, because we need a target to blame that we got screwed by a bad economy and management.
OR MABYE, we can start starching our shirts, cutting our hair, wearing our uniform with pride, holding our head up high, carrying ouselves with some bearing, treating people at the airport with respect, even the rampers and watch the flying public ( our customers by the way) start to regain their repect in us and become what we all profess we want to see ...Heres a wake up call, all your hours, all your training doesnt give you the right to fly, the public that trusts, respects and pays for the ticket does....