This is why we can't have nice things.

Wait until the price of tequila goes up with President Trump's "war" on Mexico! :eek:
 
BigBadLou said:
Pilots' pay is only a minute fraction of the whole flight ticket price. The biggest portions of the cost of flight are airport fees and airplane cost.
So trying to save on ticket cost by cutting pilots' pay is not very effective.
OTOH, increasing pilots' pay dramatically would not cause a big jump in ticket cost while hopefully improving safety of flight (by allowing better pilots to join and fly).
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It's also a minor fraction of the objections of pilots in Norway (pay that is...).
One of the bigger issues is that Norwegian is trying to shift the pilots from being employees of Norwegian to being employees of a daughter company, that would (if I understand it correctly) give them less benefits, less job security, and also they would downsize a much as possible and use a "pool" of part time employees/pilots/attendants to make up the slack when busy.

I believe there are also issues with down time, or turnaround time, how long a stretch employees are expected to work, etc.
 
jordane93 said:
NAI is operating flights within the US to other destinations that doesn't originate from their flag of operation. They have shotty mx, poorly trained pilots and are exempt from other things that US carriers are not.
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Clearly you have no clue about Norwegian or the route structure of different airlines.
"US to other destinations that doesn't originate from their flag of operation"? Come on, you think this is new?
How about CX YVR-JFK?
QF JFK-LAX?
SQ ICN-SFO?

Or how about DL JNB-DKR? :)

There's nothing shotty about their mx, and their pilots aren't poorly trained. EASA ATPL is _WAY_ more difficult than any FAA certificate.

Before blindly repeating some ALPA propaganda, I recommend researching it yourself. You would not be qualified to fly for Norwegian in Europe, the requirements and standards are too high, but you would qualify for their planned US operation because they use FAA standards for that which are lower. Their recruiment process is more like Delta/American process, not like US regionals where if you have a pulse => job offer.
Being based in Ireland is corporate tax strategy, it has nothing to do with pilot training/standards. If something is a safety concern, it's the Asian "ICAO level 4" pilots who don't have to declare emergency, because ATC already has cleared the airspace for them...
 
mtuomi said:
Clearly you have no clue about Norwegian or the route structure of different airlines.
"US to other destinations that doesn't originate from their flag of operation"? Come on, you think this is new?
How about CX YVR-JFK?
QF JFK-LAX?
SQ ICN-SFO?

Or how about DL JNB-DKR? :)

There's nothing shotty about their mx, and their pilots aren't poorly trained. EASA ATPL is _WAY_ more difficult than any FAA certificate.

Before blindly repeating some ALPA propaganda, I recommend researching it yourself. You would not be qualified to fly for Norwegian in Europe, the requirements and standards are too high, but you would qualify for their planned US operation because they use FAA standards for that which are lower. Their recruiment process is more like Delta/American process, not like US regionals where if you have a pulse => job offer.
Being based in Ireland is corporate tax strategy, it has nothing to do with pilot training/standards. If something is a safety concern, it's the Asian "ICAO level 4" pilots who don't have to declare emergency, because ATC already has cleared the airspace for them...
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And you clearly have no idea how bad their operation is run.
 
It's funny that Southwest is protesting since they got their start by cheating in the first place...





...yes it's a joke relax
 
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