isamu comments

I am an airline pilot, and I am used to reading articles like this, but they make me wonder. At my former company, our CEO had said for years that he wanted to phase out our older and smaller aircraft that cost more money to operate. Over several years they are slowly phased out, and nobody notices or says anything because its all part of a logical plan. But then one day he says the remaining 25 aircraft will be parked because he doesn't have enough pilots and then all hell broke loose and it became a major news story. So when I see stories like this it does make me wonder what else has been going on in the background.

One more thing, working at a Low Cost Carrier is generally not so good. Much less pay and benefits in most cases, with much more work. Jetstar does not pay the pilot during training, and they even make the pilot PAY the cost of their training, which can reach $30,000.