Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Exactly, but you weren't supposed to notice that. You were supposed to infer that a DPA would be prohibited from hiring these same services. Or the services used by SWAPA, or IPA, or...
If DPA is voted in, I would use my vote to push for an interview process of professional negotiators such as the ALPA subsidiary, SWAPA's team, IPA's team, and the firms used by successful foreign carriers like British Airways and Lufthansa. I would choose and pay for the firm our union thought was the best.
Carl
***? British Airways and Lufthansa?
The same British Airways that
legally started
Open Skies in order to thwart their own pilot's contract by using outsourced EU labor? The same Open Skies that has brought serious financial damage to BALPA and the BA pilots? Both of those airlines hire, almost exclusively,
ab initio pilots with
zero hours of flight time. They then put them through a short aviation college and pump them up with 250 hours and then put them on the line. Is that not the opposite of the ranting over the 1500 rule?