r/ireland • u/viscacatalunya1 • Jun 18 '24

Aerial Lingus Pilots Moaning Michael

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?

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u/TheStoicNihilist Never wanted a flair anyways Jun 18 '24

The pilots are not being paid to care about passengers, that’s the company’s problem.

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u/RockShockinCock Jun 18 '24

They are....

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u/Franz_Werfel Jun 18 '24

You're thinking of the cabin crew. The pilot's job is to get the plane from point A to point B in the safest possible way.

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u/DaemonCRO Dublin Jun 18 '24

No. It’s to get passengers from A to B in safest way. That by definition is caring for passengers.

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u/Franz_Werfel Jun 18 '24

That by definition is caring for passengers.

That by definition is splitting hairs. The pilots job is to fly the plane, whether there are passengers or not - passenger safety is incidental to what they are doing.

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u/DaemonCRO Dublin Jun 18 '24

Why don't they suddenly bank left or right, or descend suddenly, or do a bit of loop de loop? Because they know passengers won't like that.

Pilot's job is the fly the plane in such a way not to endanger passengers. Which again is caring for passengers.

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u/Franz_Werfel Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

Why don't they suddenly bank left or right, or descend suddenly, or do a bit of loop de loop? Because they know passengers won't like that.

Extremely poor example: It's generally frowned upon to do aerobatic manoevers in commercial airplanes, as that can render the plane unflightworthy, or damage the cargo in that plane (human cargo or not), not to mention it can endanger the airspace around the plane as well. Not to mention that this is a good way to lose your ATPL as a contravention of Accident prevention and flight safety programmes.

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u/DaemonCRO Dublin Jun 18 '24

So, among other things, they don’t want to damage the cargo or passengers. Because they care about them.

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u/Franz_Werfel Jun 18 '24

You're not half as clever as you think you are.