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British Airways to cut 1,700 cabin crew positions
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Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
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I take it you mean this thread...
http://www.topix.com/forum/com/bab/TQ442BH57DHCEGF6M
Majority of replies posted by school children it appears. £200k+ is just laughable and completely untrue.
Your average pilot is on less than £100k, most earn in the region of £70-90k
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Exactly!
I know 2 blokes who tried to become commercial pilots. It's a tough training programme. If you don't get sponsored it's very expensive to get the flight hours required, and you're not guaranteed a job once you've got them. Many people do a lot of "small time" piloting jobs before cracking into commercial. Oh and you've got to be quite smart.
At the end of the day would you want your bus driver performing an emergency landing or someone like C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/hudson.plane.crash/index.html
didnt he quit recently, because the salary was so bad?
sure i read that somewhere
Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
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Regarding Sullenberger, I'm not sure why he quit. Perhaps it was stress related. I read that he tried to get a job somewhere and they wouldn't hire him because he had a crash on his record. It was an Asian carrier I believe.
And yes I think a pilot should earn more than a GP and nurses. This is becoming a "who deserves to earn more" thread, and we're hearing the usual jealous whinges. Next you'll be complaining about football players.0 -
prob so he can earn more doing the celebrity circuit..Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
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back on topic (flight staff) in a previous job in housing I signed a young lady up for the tenancy of a flat. I remember it well....;)
She was BEE YOO TEE FULLLL!
I hope she isn't affected by this sad news. Perhaps I could (ahem) check on her wellbeing...It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
inspector_monkfish wrote: »didnt he quit recently, because the salary was so bad?
sure i read that somewhere
On the subject of Sullenberg, there's an update in the site below. He's still flying, but writing his memoirs as well...
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20091005_Winging_It__Sullenberger_touts_the_value_of_training.htmlPlease stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I foresee angry unions and strikes.0
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I used to work for a smaller profitable airline, which BA saw, went we like that how do they do it, paid multi millions for it, moved the staff to BA T&C's and sold the airline 3 years later for a 1 pound (could be wrong on the amount but small) to FlyBe.......... with the way the operate they allways loose out to the easyjets/ ryanairs of this world to many expensive unionised old practicesThe futures bright the future is Ginger0
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