SAS pilots on strike in April 2019
Apr 16, 2019, 1:56 pm
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Apr 16, 2019, 2:33 pm
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Not true! You leave service years (and benefits based on that like selection of off-days or staff travel perks) but not necessarily the position. If Lufthansa (or the Arabs, Chinese or whatever) want to hire Captains, they can hire experiences Captains from other carriers and make them Captain. Just need some training on the procedures and stuff.
the times when number of years in the cockpit made you Captain are long gone. Some of my friends are in the game now longer than the average time it took to become captain in the past without a chance to be promoted. LH, like a lot of the carriers will run into a serious shortage of qualified flying personal sooner than later.
Apr 16, 2019, 2:44 pm
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Sure, as I said. You are the new guy, so seniority and its benefits gets reset. That’s the same for every other job as well. Joining a new company means you have to earn your reputation.
Still it doesn’t mean you have to start as Junior FO after 15 years of being Captain on a other major airline
Like I’m not getting hired as junior consultant or software architect anymore but on Directors or VP level. Still need to earn my credit with every new job.
Talking to my friends at LH they value the benefits/perks achieved by staying on for years higher than the obscene salary the Asians offer, so they stay on at LH.
Still it doesn’t mean you have to start as Junior FO after 15 years of being Captain on a other major airline
Like I’m not getting hired as junior consultant or software architect anymore but on Directors or VP level. Still need to earn my credit with every new job.
Talking to my friends at LH they value the benefits/perks achieved by staying on for years higher than the obscene salary the Asians offer, so they stay on at LH.
Apr 17, 2019, 11:12 pm
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Strike, or other reasons? I thought the strike was only announced for the 20 somethingth...
Apr 17, 2019, 11:19 pm
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There is zero media reference to any strike action happening today. Flights do get cancelled for other reasons. And since it is the beginning of the Easter period, flights being sold out is not an unusual occurrence.
Apr 17, 2019, 11:43 pm
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The flights are not sold out — they are all showing C9 but Y0.
Apr 17, 2019, 11:54 pm
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Apr 18, 2019, 1:48 pm
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Getting DEC on other carriers is rare if you don't have enough hours. More in this forum of pprune: https://www.pprune.org/terms-endearment-38/
Apr 23, 2019, 3:04 am
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The SAS pilots union, which represents about 95% of all SK pilots, are threatening to stop working as of April 26th midnight unless a salary hike and other working conditions are changed to the pilots' benefit.
Let's hope a lot of rain is in the forecast and/or that the weather is bad in the Scandinavian countries during any SK pilot strike.
Let's hope a lot of rain is in the forecast and/or that the weather is bad in the Scandinavian countries during any SK pilot strike.
Apr 23, 2019, 4:07 am
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Apr 23, 2019, 4:26 am
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I can only hope the weather is no good when the SK pilots want to strike. I don't need more oily residue in the natural bodies of water as a result of pilot strikes, nor do we need more pilots on the golf courses when I want to fly.
Maybe the usual hacks can have a next episode called "boating shame", with various parties exploiting the amount of oily residue I see floating on the waters of even small Swedish harbors (even when it seems most of the personal Swedish boats have not even yet gotten in the water for the year).
Apr 24, 2019, 9:11 am
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May 2nd I get the honor of flying my first SK award trip in J. CPH-ARN-ORD-CPH (return on the 7th). I am taking the wife on a long weekend to Chicago. I have booked loads of award tickets before, but always on *A partners and never on SK. If this strike actually does occur, what is SK's policy with rebooking awards? Will they rebook us on a partner in J? Downgrade us? And in the case of a downgrade, what recourse do I have?
Thanks!
JR
Thanks!
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