GTFA

Demanding that your employer reduce your amount of work is only going to undermine your ability to earn income. Allowing the Government to dictate rules to address scheduling rules is a invitation for confusion and conflict. WE, as professionals need to take responsibility for our own well being and negotiate wages and working conditions that reflect our commitment to providing the highest levels of safety, with efficiency.

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It's like building a boat that will only stay upright if the "auto-stabilizing" system is active. Maybe Boeing should just build a better aircraft.

That could be indicative of the high expectations of Canadian travelers. Good news/bad news.

Looks like a perfect storm of issues escalating due to hypersensitivity of our currently paranoid society. Very sad.

" Fast-Change", "conversion"? This may be more marketing pitch and jargon than anything particularly technical. It looks like the conversion is to remove seats from the aircraft and install tie-down latches in the seat tracks. Is there more to it than that? Of course there are W/B and fire watch concerns but that is an issue with the carriage of any cargo. With the floor loading limits remaining equal, will the aircraft actually carry more cargo by piling packages on the floor than by securing it to the existing seating structures? GTFA

We need to focus on the people who care about getting the right people into the positions of pilot and AME. The travelling public, the airline executive office, the College of Professional Pilots of Canada. The industry needs to realize the critical nature and therefor value of any person who puts in any "Touch-Time" on aircraft that effects safety of operations.

Is it about the domicile or the base of operation? So many people are commuting from smaller, and even from same size or larger, communities to their position at their base it would be very difficult to align the true cost of living for a large group in different life scenarios. I am mostly familiar with pilot contracts so my perspective is that the most direct approach would be to offer whatever you need to entice pilots to apply then enough in the future to entice them to stay. Is it the companies fault that a person applies for a job they can't afford? As long a there are people applying(demand) there must be jobs(supply) they are willing to commit to. I think that the more immediately issue for operators is retention. I know that there is so much more to the issue and to simplify it can lead to misunderstanding the cause and effect. I believe that the only path to reclaiming the status of professional pilots, and engineers etc. in this industry is through hard bargaining. Professions need to realize and exercise their influence at the bargaining table and in the public eye. To rely on government intervention to enforce the laws of physics and science of physiology is shirking our responsibilities and devaluing our collective value.

So, what IS a living wage? Do you pay someone according to the cost of living where he lives? Where he works from? That could lead to a very complicated pay formula where two individuals of equal YOS, qualification and position are paid significantly different amounts. Is that fair? What standard of living can be negotiated to reflect the professional status of a pilot or AME or Dispatcher etc. and how is it measured?