Forward this to all of your managers and let them have a review of themselves.
Dear Airline Managers:
You are crying and crying left right and center that there are not enough pilots to carry on your operations. American Airlines recently put 250 of their own managers, also qualified pilots, into cockpits to alleviate their shortage.
However, you have only yourselves to blame. Go to any FBO around Canada or the US. You will, on average, see 20 students at any one ground school, all wanting to be airline pilots. Yet, out of that 20, only 2, that's right, 2, will ever finish their commercial license, because they simply can not keep up with the costs, especially with rising fuel fees. There is also an airport around here (Canada) that we use for cross country touch and goes. However, the recently introduced small plane landing fees that are passed on to the students.
Europe and Asian carriers are taking the initiative and training pilots from scratch and giving them life-long employment. What are you doing?
That's right. With all the money you don't use for training you can buy a new house.
If you need pilots, step up to the plate and help us out. These are expensive days to be studying aviation.
Dear unionized airline pilots,
For guys who only work 85 hours a month and get all sorts of benefits and salary, you sure do whine a lot. What is it that you want? I think a lot of you are bitter because you are unsatisfied with where you work. But, look again, at the guys who work the starbucks at the airport, who fuel up the plane, the ticket counter agents. Is your job so bad now?
You get paid nice salaries to fly some of the finest aircraft ever produced. Isn't that why you got into flying in the first place?
But a lot of you older guys have done nothing else but fly since you were 15, so You have lost your perspective! Many younger pilots, let's say 30 and up, are actually doing piloting as a second career, so they have a tendency to be more grateful for their opportunities to fly for a major airline.
I will be a pilot one day. If I can get even as much as $30,000 a year to captain a cutting edge aircraft, I will be grateful as anything for the opportunity to do what I have always wanted to do.
