Time to create a NAI blacklist?
12-18-2016 | 06:20 AM
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So what you are saying is the piloting profession works completely counter to the principles of supply and demand. In your world the less pilot jobs there are, and the more pilots looking for work, puts upward pressure on salaries? Interesting...
So in your world the post 9/11 era was the best time to be a pilot. Highest pay and benefits ever...
So in your world the post 9/11 era was the best time to be a pilot. Highest pay and benefits ever...
12-18-2016 | 06:55 AM
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Fewer pilots and more jobs = higher pay. Same with every profession. We should be doing nothing to make it easier to be a pilot. There's a problem when a new entrant offers pay well below scale, and desperate pilots willing to skip a few rungs of the career ladder show up for work.
You are only looking at the U.S. pilot market when this is, in fact, a global industry. Specifically this is a European airline. What they are paying comparable to other European airlines. Of course perhaps you prefer the Lufthansa alter-ego airline Eurowings, which pays its A330 pilots 15% less than Norwegian pays its 787 pilots.
12-18-2016 | 07:39 AM
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12-18-2016 | 07:46 AM
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Apparently you forget that the unions and airline management were never completely satisfied with Virgin America, and their opposition continued for a few years after the DOT gave them the green light. ALPA never fully relented until the VX pilots began to seek out representation. Alaska airlines specifically kept raising issues for nearly three years after the DOT gave VX the green light. It was not a simple case of airlines trying to get VX to comply with DOT demands, it was a concerted effort to keep VX from ever getting certified, even despite compliance with DOT demands.
12-18-2016 | 08:03 AM
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Apparently you forget that the unions and airline management were never completely satisfied with Virgin America, and their opposition continued for a few years after the DOT gave them the green light. ALPA never fully relented until the VX pilots began to seek out representation. Alaska airlines specifically kept raising issues for nearly three years after the DOT gave VX the green light. It was not a simple case of airlines trying to get VX to comply with DOT demands, it was a concerted effort to keep VX from ever getting certified, even despite compliance with DOT demands.
12-18-2016 | 08:08 AM
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12-18-2016 | 08:55 AM
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Again, so what. If VA hadn't presented such a blurry ownership structure in the beginning, they wouldn't have attracted that kind of attention. The DOT required them to make changes prior to certification since they were found to not be in full compliance. Again, legitimate issues were raised that required changes. Ever wonder why Allegiant didn't have these issues?
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