Unhappy Pilots, Just What You Wanted Right!
Would you go have a doctor work on you when he was very unhappy and uncertain about his future? No you probably wouldn't and I wouldn't either. In fact, since I have seen what a distraction job security and a being worried about career future is, I will have some questions next time a doctor does an important procedure on me. I will ask the doctor if they are happy today, do they have any serious worries, any concerns that would distract them from being 100% during this procedure.
I would think that a person would want the same in an airline pilot. This is a job that the pilot should be 100%, happy and worry free to be focused on the job of flying passengers around. Instead the airline management for years now has been making the futures of airline pilots very uncertain and not very profitable.
A lot of pilots I know are very concerned with their future. They are worried about money and often don't have enough to really support their families. You do have to remember I am talking mainly about the regional airline pilot as the major airlines are making a little more. I know the major airline pilots have their worries too, but the regionals are on a lower pay scale.
Money is not everything. Management now is using the regional airlines own flying to threaten the pilots. Some airlines like Comair are having to bid on their flying. If they don't get selected it sounds like they can see their flying disappear and their jobs disappear. This would sure worry most pilots and make a pilot much less focus. Just what you wanted right, a less focused pilot.
That is what is going on. At a lot of regional airlines, pilots are very worried. In the crew lounge all you ever hear are pilots talking about all the bad things that are going on and that they are worried. They are all trying to figure out what they are going to do.
For many pilots it is becoming very hard to go to work and be focused on your job of flying an airplane safely. The airline management is doing everything they can to beat the pilot group down and that does not allow a pilot to be focused.
I would think that a person would want the same in an airline pilot. This is a job that the pilot should be 100%, happy and worry free to be focused on the job of flying passengers around. Instead the airline management for years now has been making the futures of airline pilots very uncertain and not very profitable.
A lot of pilots I know are very concerned with their future. They are worried about money and often don't have enough to really support their families. You do have to remember I am talking mainly about the regional airline pilot as the major airlines are making a little more. I know the major airline pilots have their worries too, but the regionals are on a lower pay scale.
Money is not everything. Management now is using the regional airlines own flying to threaten the pilots. Some airlines like Comair are having to bid on their flying. If they don't get selected it sounds like they can see their flying disappear and their jobs disappear. This would sure worry most pilots and make a pilot much less focus. Just what you wanted right, a less focused pilot.
That is what is going on. At a lot of regional airlines, pilots are very worried. In the crew lounge all you ever hear are pilots talking about all the bad things that are going on and that they are worried. They are all trying to figure out what they are going to do.
For many pilots it is becoming very hard to go to work and be focused on your job of flying an airplane safely. The airline management is doing everything they can to beat the pilot group down and that does not allow a pilot to be focused.
posted by Jet Airline Pilot at 5:32 AM
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