Airline Pilots striking

[Gandahar]

RyanAir, the notably frugal airline that even counts how many biro's taken to a meeting v ones they can steal from the hotel hosting it, said this year

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/31/r...

"O’Leary said in a video message to employees that Ryanair had an excess of more than 500 pilots and about 400 cabin crew"

Considering they have only 400 planes Mr O'Blarney taking about an excess of 500 pilots .... if that was true they have gone down hill from penny pinching from 3 years back to today. How can penny pinching O'Dumbo get to that mess with 500 excess pilots?

Now BA have strike action considering they could sack them all and get a few RyanAir pilots in, up to 500 of them charging at the gates,

The simple fact of the matter is that with Asia and Middle east taking off needing pilots the European pilots are in a position of strength to get more wonga.

The need for commercial civilisation pilots in 2019 is outstripping supply, and the this will increase in the near future until the airlines catch up with how many pilots are needed v the expensive inflow to get them there.

Currently the only thing that will help the airlines short term with their pilot shortages is a huge recession. Rather like the 737 Max grounding has helped overworked suppliers.

[anonymous-user]

Gandahar said:

Now BA have strike action considering they could sack them all and get a few RyanAir pilots in, up to 500 of them charging at the gates,

Sack them for what?

There’s likely to be other U.K. airlines striking after BA but as the strike has to be legal and approved and arranged through BALPA, there’s a queue at the moment.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 24th August 15:35

[Testaburger]

Regardless of some of the other idiotic points you make, you do realise that in your BA strike scenario, this ‘surplus 500’ number of pilots wouldn’t be able to complete the application, selection and training (several months minimum) in time to rescue BA’s operation during the strike, don’t you?

Airline pilots don’t walk around the airport asking what the going rate is and hop in to the seat

[valiant]

What would you sack them for?

I take they’re employed by BA on normal type contracts so if you did sack them for strike action you’d be in a tribunal before Willie Walsh’s tea has gone cold.

Something called ‘protected action’. In short, you can’t be fired for taking strike action (as long as proper procedures in balloting, etc have been adhered to)