Funny thing is you people never put your money where your mouth is. For every deluded person like you and Ooof I could easily find 10 Brits or Canadians who would trade places with you tomorrow. They have major airlines and wide bodies too, so it would be a like for like trade.

But you don't actually believe any of this stuff, so here you will stay, whining about how you don't get to experience utopia.

 

Yeah in the same fashion we don't take from each other's PWA to improve contracts we also should never learn of things other countries might do better than us and improve here either.

Hey! Let's send all the LEPFers to Japan and NZ! Problem solved. "If they like it so much" right?

 

Agreed health discussions are boring.
I miss us just yelling at each other about how those born in the 80’s are entitled and those born in the 60’s are greedy.

 

Unironically a good idea. They should seek other opportunities if they want to fly more. If that's working in Japan or NZ so be it. They can also go work part 135 and "mentor" there.

 

Its dead. As in not going anywhere, for awhile. IATA can ask, cajole, make a news release, drop a study for comments or anything else. State entities can still operate within their boundaries as required by law.

But in the US, Congress has spoken, and I see next to zero appetite to attack this at ICAO.

 

I'd agree we should do a manhattan project on healthcare reform. But private sector... our industry for example works fine as private sector.

We should also do comprehensive immigration reform so we can screen and admit the legal immigrants we need, ensure they get min wage, benefits, pay taxes, and have pathway to citizenship (if desired). Then criminalize border jumping with mandatory hard federal time.

While we're at it comprehensive reform of food safety rules (the euros get that right).

But be careful with the idea of "rights"...

A "right" is something that someone can take away from you, never something that someone must provide to you.

Breathing air is a right. Free speech is a right. Healthcare can never be a right because it doesn't grow on trees, someone has to actually do it for you.

The founders understood this intuitively, see the bill of rights for context.

Healthcare at best can be an "entitlement", guaranteed by law/policy, but practically speaking only as long as they can find someone else to pay for it.

 

Aside from the pro-67 guy that Trump is sending to ICAO?

If ICAO goes,so will the US. Some of us have seen this movie before (from the right seat of an RJ).

 

Just curious, do you have gun trees near your house? They must be extinct where i live.

And regarding food safety reform, MAHA is completely missing the boat. In many, many areas the US meets or exceeds the EU standard in food safety. That's not the problem with food and health in this country. The problem is the cheapest and most calorically dense foods you can buy also happen to be food high in sugar and fat. Multiplied that by Internet misinform from wellness influencers whose only goal is to hock their name brand $50/day food supplements and an unwillingness to effectively regulate our food industry because capitalism.

 

A year ago when the Democrats were in charge of the committee it failed along party lines by 1 vote. So for ALPA’s talking points of it being “settled law”…that’s laughable, just like the lies about “safety”. I’d have more respect for that line If they were simply honest…we oppose this because of seniority progression LEPF folks on the other hand need to be intellectually honest as well. It isn’t about “experience matters” or mentoring. It’s about the Benjamins. Always has been.

The Dems are no longer in charge and are in the minority. If & when ICAO goes, it’ll soon follow in the US.

 

True, the eu/uk does not fluorinate drinking water. Result, missing teeth. Full set of implants here runs between 40-50k. But at least you can look forward to flashing a big toothy smile from the L seat at 66 without blinking if this thing passes. There may be other benefits ins wise.