Please stop using what was happening decades ago to prove your point. Overtime protection has been gone since before I started at Nav 15 years ago.Gilles Hudicourt wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 7:41 amYou may want to look at these numbers.thenoflyzone wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 5:15 am WIth revenues down, the cost of that service is going up. If you can't understand that, especially after everything I have written, than there isn't much else to say really.
ATC is an essential service. Joe Blo flying down to Cayo Coco with his family for some fun in the sun isn't essential. So comparing Air Canada's situation to that of NavCan's isn't entirely accurate. Yes, passengers will end up paying for these increases - that includes me btw -, but if you cant afford to fly, dont. Flying is not en entitlement, it's a privilege. People seem to forget that. Airlines selling tickets to fly half way around the world for 1000$ wasn't a sustainable model. It's a shame it it took a pandemic to illustrate that.
As for washout rates, they have steadily gone down over the years. And let's not pretend pilots didn't do overtime either.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-q ... 1b-eng.htm
After looking at them, you may understand the impact of airlines on the Canadian economy. Of the 22.1 millions foreign tourists who came to Canada in 2019, 12,7 million of them arrived by Air.
12,7 million foreign "Joe Bloes" that came to Canada to spend money on housing accommodations, restaurants, local transport (car rentals, taxis, buses and domestic airlines) and leisure activities. They provide jobs to millions of Canadians. If you don't think that this is "essential", there isn't much else to say really.
As for your last statement, I have never heard EVER in my career, of any instructor pilot washing out an otherwise qualified new hire just so he could guarantee himself and some of his colleagues more flying overtime. Yet this went on for years at Nav Canada. I am happy to learn this is no longer the case. It was a stain on the institution.
IATA has recently declared that 50% of its 800 member airlines are at risk of bankruptcy before the end of 2020. It is when the airlines try to restart flying in the weeks to come that most failures will occur. traffic in 2020 and even 2121 may not be more that 50% of 2019 levels. Based on your logic, it would be normal for Naav-Can, an essential service, to hike its fees by 100% to makeup for the shortfall, putting a few more nails into the airlines industry......
There’s a difference between 100% increase and a 29% payable over 5 years. Also what happens if everything stabilized and Nav’s revenues exceed their cost? They give it back to the airlines, which they recently did when they returned over 100 million to the airlines. Eventually the rates will be reduced once revenues go up.