Remember when I said that airline pilots could go on strike and ruin the industry?

[LJ_Reloaded]

Well, things have actually gotten WORSE than that now.

The number of people pursuing commercial pilots' licenses is almost down to "extinct in the wild" status, according to the FAA.

What the fuck would Ronald Reagan do about that? Break the non-existent strike with military pilots?

LOL.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Commercial airline pilots are fed up with the insufficient wages for their stressful jobs and all of the bullshit bureaucracy they have to put up with along the way.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Commercial airline pilots are fed up with the insufficient wages for their stressful jobs and all of the bullshit bureaucracy they have to put up with along the way.

It's going to be a good day for the world when the industry learns a hard lesson about fucking with their workers.

Airline pilots are not interchangeable carbon blobs, as they're now finding out.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Considering how far drone tech has come they'll probably jut hire one or two pilots for every x amount of planes and only have them take manual control encase of emergency.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Considering how far drone tech has come they'll probably jut hire one or two pilots for every x amount of planes and only have them take manual control encase of emergency.

And the plane without a pilot on that flight will be a great target for hackers. Oh, no, wait, airline systems are perfectly unhackable. Nevermind! And the drone software is reliable, too!

More purple kool-aid, please.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Terrorists are sufficiently few and far between that nobody is really bothered that the pilots aren't flying the planes now. To the point where remember a few days ago when that plane almost crashed cus the pilot woke up saw Venus and thought it was an oncoming plane?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Terrorists are sufficiently few and far between

LOL. ROTFLMAO. It only takes one.

 

[Sean Renaud]

One how often? Honestly. Depending on where you claim the terrorists have been attacking us they've managed (soldiers we tossed at them non-withstanding for obvious reasons) to kill about 7 thousand people over a least thirty years longer than that (I'm not in a google mood, forgive me?) they fucking suck at their jobs.

Even today I'd rather run the, what four in (how many planes were flying that day multiplied by how many days in a year?) chance that a terrorist takes control is well within acceptable risk zone currently. When they start making a habit of then we can work on it. I'm personally more willing to risk being flown into building than being groped.

The other part of your argument hinges on what's a basic untruth. That there is an inherent value in work. There isn't. No such thing exists and we all subconciously if not conciously recognize this. There is value in results. We want the job done, done right, done quickly but not done hard. When we say "Thank you for your hard work" we are thanking the person for the results, not the work. Even when someone goes above and beyond we are thanking them for the results not the work.

Frankly I'm a little shocked, and a bit insulted, you didn't post in my last thread. I figured you'd either praise me or call me an idiot but you ignored me outright. It made me feel like Lady Gaga when she started singing Material Girl and Madonna asked who she was.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Nope.

 

[badbabysitter]

Remember when I said that airline pilots could go on strike and ruin the industry?


Nope

show us where you said this


it's my new fun game with you...

 

[Krotos]

Even today I'd rather run the, what four in (how many planes were flying that day multiplied by how many days in a year?) chance that a terrorist takes control is well within acceptable risk zone currently. When they start making a habit of then we can work on it. I'm personally more willing to risk being flown into building than being groped.

There used to be a time when aircraft hijacking by terrorists was disturbingly common, ranging from 40 to 80 incidents per year. They ceased to be common due to those annoying security measures.

Civilian airliners make attractive targets for terrorism: hundreds of people inside a fragile, high-flying, kerosene-filled machine that can be brought down with a single moderately powerful bomb or hijacked by a single gunman. The reason so few attacks happen and fewer still succeed is because to get inside a plane with a weapon one needs to pass through all those detectors and patdowns. Granted, many of the currently adopted measures are not very smart or effective, but even they act as a discouragement to potential attackers.

Re: lower demand for pilots as profession. The airline industry is in a bad economic shape right now. Since the beginning of the year, half a dozen airlines went belly up, others suspended most of their operations, were "restructured" (read: narrowly avoided official bankruptsy) etc. Half the airline tickets currently sold in the US are on airlines in varying stages of bankruptsy proceedings. Revenues are low, ever-proliferating customer protection laws cause increasing losses, the price of oil goes ever-up and people have less and less money to spend on flying. Is it any wonder that all professions associated with civilian aviation are becoming less attractive?

 

[Morwen]

Airline pilots are by definition highly trained specialists. They are one of the last bastions of potential labor resistance. If they strike, the air economy collapses.

So of course the criminals in the Chamber of Commerce and elsewhere will villify them, crucify them, make them out to be unreliable.

The problem is the gangsters don't have replacements for them.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Remember when I said that airline pilots could go on strike and ruin the industry?


Nope

show us where you said this


it's my new fun game with you...

Once again, for the 100,000th time, you lose. Badly.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=32248409

Of course, as with all the other occasions, you will respond by saying I didn't answer your question.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

There used to be a time when aircraft hijacking by terrorists was disturbingly common, ranging from 40 to 80 incidents per year. They ceased to be common due to those annoying security measures.

Civilian airliners make attractive targets for terrorism: hundreds of people inside a fragile, high-flying, kerosene-filled machine that can be brought down with a single moderately powerful bomb or hijacked by a single gunman. The reason so few attacks happen and fewer still succeed is because to get inside a plane with a weapon one needs to pass through all those detectors and patdowns. Granted, many of the currently adopted measures are not very smart or effective, but even they act as a discouragement to potential attackers.

Re: lower demand for pilots as profession. The airline industry is in a bad economic shape right now. Since the beginning of the year, half a dozen airlines went belly up, others suspended most of their operations, were "restructured" (read: narrowly avoided official bankruptsy) etc. Half the airline tickets currently sold in the US are on airlines in varying stages of bankruptsy proceedings. Revenues are low, ever-proliferating customer protection laws cause increasing losses, the price of oil goes ever-up and people have less and less money to spend on flying. Is it any wonder that all professions associated with civilian aviation are becoming less attractive?

I'm not sure the airline industry was ever self-sufficient.

If it was Amtrak or high speed rail it would have been shitcanned; but lots of corporate execs and businessmen fly on airplanes, so it continues to cling to life.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

There used to be a time when aircraft hijacking by terrorists was disturbingly common, ranging from 40 to 80 incidents per year. They ceased to be common due to those annoying security measures.

Civilian airliners make attractive targets for terrorism: hundreds of people inside a fragile, high-flying, kerosene-filled machine that can be brought down with a single moderately powerful bomb or hijacked by a single gunman. The reason so few attacks happen and fewer still succeed is because to get inside a plane with a weapon one needs to pass through all those detectors and patdowns. Granted, many of the currently adopted measures are not very smart or effective, but even they act as a discouragement to potential attackers.

Re: lower demand for pilots as profession. The airline industry is in a bad economic shape right now. Since the beginning of the year, half a dozen airlines went belly up, others suspended most of their operations, were "restructured" (read: narrowly avoided official bankruptsy) etc. Half the airline tickets currently sold in the US are on airlines in varying stages of bankruptsy proceedings. Revenues are low, ever-proliferating customer protection laws cause increasing losses, the price of oil goes ever-up and people have less and less money to spend on flying. Is it any wonder that all professions associated with civilian aviation are becoming less attractive?

I'm not sure the airline industry was ever self-sufficient.

If it was Amtrak or high speed rail it would have been shitcanned; but lots of corporate execs and businessmen fly on airplanes, so it continues to cling to life.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Explaining the shitty state of the airline industry only takes one word....... unions

 

[badbabysitter]

Once again, for the 100,000th time, you lose. Badly.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=32248409

Of course, as with all the other occasions, you will respond by saying I didn't answer your question.

I lost by asking you to point out where you said that airlines couldgo on strike and ruin the industry

you then linked me to athread where you actually did NOT say that

say, to protest the severe cuts in pilots' pay and pensions, what could the airlines do?

Hire scabs to fly and to control air traffic?

How well would that go over?

But what about the pilots? In 1981 only the ATC people went on strike. If the pilots also joined in, what then?

those are questions, not answers.. not bold commentary


christ man, you just arent very smart

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I lost by asking you to point out where you said that airlines couldgo on strike and ruin the industry

you then linked me to athread where you actually did NOT say that

Actually my quote DID say that.

Period.

This argument is over and you have lost. AGAIN.

 

[phrodeau]

Actually my quote DID say that.

Period.

This argument is over and you have lost. AGAIN.

You did not phrase your answer in the form of a question.

Art Fleming says you lost.

 

[badbabysitter]

Actually my quote DID say that.

Period.

This argument is over and you have lost. AGAIN.

Completely untrue.. I directly quoted you in its entirety what it said


at no point did you make a claim.. you asked questions to others


only on your planet when you are directly quoted do you accuse someone of lying about what you said


yup, you're a fucking moron

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I think LJ and Babysitter need to get a room....