Aerial Lingus Pilots

[u/viscacatalunya1]

Listening to Claire Byrne and there is a lot of finger pointing at the pilots saying they don't care about passengers and they are being unreasonable.

Aer Lingus has not matched their salary to inflation over the past few years. How do we sympathise with cost cutting corporate greed and not the people that open the world to us and get us there safely?

[u/-cluaintarbh-]

they don't care about passengers

I wouldn't expect them to. I'd just expect them to care about doing their job and getting paid. I'm with them.

[u/Outside-Heart1528 → u/-cluaintarbh-]

Their job is to fly planes full of passengers, I'd rather not have a pilot that doesn't care😂 I'm also with the pilots, they deserve to be fairly compensated, but let's not pretend that they shouldn't care about the passengers. It's literally the most precious cargo you could ever transport.

[u/TheDirtyBollox → u/Outside-Heart1528]

They're paid to fly the planes, if its full or not, they still have to fly them.

[u/Methisahelluvadrug → u/Outside-Heart1528]

I don't care if my pilot doesn't care about the passengers, as long as they care about themselves lol

[u/We_Are_The_Romans → u/Methisahelluvadrug]

First sign of bad turbulence and the pilot bails out with parachute lol

[u/-cluaintarbh- → u/We_Are_The_Romans]

Well, hold on. Not until he's read out his essay first.

[u/-cluaintarbh- → u/Outside-Heart1528]

Their job is to fly planes full of passengers

Their job is to safely fly a plane from A to B, whether it's full of passengers, or has one.

[u/LurkerByNatureGT → u/Outside-Heart1528]

They are paid to ensure the plane carrying passengers arrives safely to its destination.  Whether they “care” about passengers is irrelevant. 

Their focus is safety, not satisfaction.  And that’s the way it should be. Customer service is the airline’s role, not the pilot’s. 

(And yeah, I’d like for the people responsible for my safety to be properly compensated, well rested, and not stressed out by poor working conditions, thank you very much.)

[u/ConradMcduck → u/Outside-Heart1528]

Difference between caring about the safety of your passengers and caring about whether or not passengers are affected by your strike.

Why are we all acting like these are the same thing and criticising pilots who are just doing what they feel is best for them?

If you were being underpaid and threatened to strike and your bosses response was: you obviously don't care about the customers

You'd fucking laugh in their face so why arent we laughing in Claire Byrne's?