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Sounds like they need to do more of that.
Is there a surplus of pilots waiting in line for jobs? This isn't the first time I've heard that pilots get paid very little and have to work incredibly long hours. Are there no unions?
> At another DHL carrier, pilots went on strike for two days after a year of regularly being forced to cover overtime shifts due to short-staffing. Sounds like they need to do more of that. Is there a surplus of pilots waiting in line for jobs? This isn't the first time I've heard that pilots get paid very little and have to work incredibly long hours. Are there no unions?
People learn to fly because they like flying, it is fun. Because people like to fly, the going rate for piloting is low. If people didn't like flying so much, the rates would be higher.
There aren't really any facts here just pure emotion that you would hear in any industry where costs are cut. I've no idea how fairly these pilots are paid. But surely there are regulations about pilot rest just like on commercial flights. And a pilot cannot really pull heart strings about being away from home when they chose that line of work where your job is literally to be away from home all the time.
I think transportation is an incredibly important (food!), but the way this is written seems incredibly tone-deaf. He should have focused on the facts (if there are any) about incident rates and length of time flying, instead of saying how his dream of connecting "our great country with the rest of the world" is being jeopardized.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...
The dividing line in jobs nowadays seems to be headquarters or operations, brain or hands. If you're in operations, you are already or will be optimized to the extent possible and permitted. Not pretty, but the modus operandi. Pilots are part of operations and not different to drivers or cleaning staff, even if they still consider themselves part of an elite.
> At another DHL carrier, pilots went on strike for two days after a year of regularly being forced to cover overtime shifts due to short-staffing. Sounds like they need to do more of that. Is there a surplus of pilots waiting in line for jobs? This isn't the first time I've heard that pilots get paid very little and have to work incredibly long hours. Are there no unions?
I'd like them to define "forced", I don't think there really is any mechanism for an employer to compel anyone to do things. People learn to fly because they like flying, it is fun. Because people like to fly, the going rate for piloting is low. If people didn't like flying so much, the rates would be higher.
"veterans or reservists who have spent years in selfless service"
Both veterans and reservists get paid for their work. It's no more selfless than being a programmer or a cleaner.
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I'd like them to define "forced", I don't think there really is any mechanism for an employer to compel anyone to do things. People learn to fly because they like flying, it is fun. Because people like to fly, the going rate for piloting is low. If people didn't like flying so much, the rates would be higher.
That's news to me! Throughout my life I've subconsciously picked up that pilots are very well paid. Did I get the wrong impression?
http://pilotjobs.atpflightschool.com/2015/01/23/how-much-mon...
That reference about DHL being German doesn't sit nicely with me. Germany is much more socialist than the USA.
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I'd like them to define "forced", I don't think there really is any mechanism for an employer to compel anyone to do things. People learn to fly because they like flying, it is fun. Because people like to fly, the going rate for piloting is low. If people didn't like flying so much, the rates would be higher.
That's news to me! Throughout my life I've subconsciously picked up that pilots are very well paid. Did I get the wrong impression?
This article is filled with emotion and lack of facts. You express how difficult your job is however 80% of the time the computer is doing all of your job. This is why a lot of tech companies are focusing on AI driving/flying automation. Of course it is good to have a pilot on the plain but very little is done now days by him. You only bear the responsibility(not that it is little).
You have few actions: - Make sure all pilots are on the same page as you and put on a strike (Create Demand in the face of Amazon) - If others are OK with the working condition then problem is with yourself. You need to provide something more to the table than flying skills - teaching, management, experience.
Stop blaming businesses, they have a very predictable morality - profit.