Comments by "Canice Tang" (@canicetang8837) on "Untold stories of the crash, Chinese economy, aviation industry, and pilots" video.

  1. I would like to include an inconvenient truth about the airline industry. The team of Flight Crew on a typical flight consists of groups of Pilots and Flight Attendants, ONLY GETS PAID while the airplane is off the ground. Therefore, their hours of pre-flight meeting of weather report, possible flight path variations, potential issues with related flight control monitoring personnels and other technical aspects for the pilots. As well as the specific needs for special customers who need various attentions, dietary restrictions and medical requirements, would also be addressed with the Flight Attendants. All must be ready hours before the flight and ensure absolute safety on the plane before even allow boarding of the passengers. The pilots do paid well, but they had to put a lot of money up front for flight training colleges, then thousands of hours accumulating experiences from small planes, to medium sized cargo planes, then to regional aircrafts to earn their wings before completing their dreams of finally being a pilot for a jumbo passenger plane. The flight attendants also have to partake grueling training once they were hired based on the personal and academic skills, as well as their proficiencies of secondary and tertiary languages test. They had to deal with many situations and unusual circumstances that would come in their ways. What other people simply didn't know is that the Flight Attendants while on air also acted as security, whereby restraining irritating and uncontrolled outbursts of particular passenger which posed urgent safety issues for the entire flight. They are authorized to restrain and even use force to subdue that passenger for the safety of everyone. In other words, they are the actual police while on the flight. Not too many people give their ultimate respect in terms of professionalism. Please do and respect them at all times. Also they are never as well paid in terms of flight attendants. Even in the luxury airliners such as the Emirates and Qatar Airlines. Their living expenses in those countries are every pricey. For the Asian airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and so on. They only hired the young ones for their looks and often do not continue after their three years contract expires. Yes, they do get very generous discounts on hotels and other accommodations, but that seldom equates to their paltry wages, even on the best global airlines. Like many industries, there are many good and bad aspects which no one will know. Unless you know something or personally working for one to truly understand. I really doubt that those pilots and flight attendants in the PRC are remotely being paid on par with their colleagues outside the PRC, which made the plausible reasons even more sad and puzzling. Yet very true based on my personal experience and others working in the airline industry.
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