Foreign Deployment Ban!

[PissKhanXXX]

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Airlines seek ban on skilled labor deployment
By Darwin G. Amojelar, Reporter
The Manila Times
Tueday, March 07, 2006

HOMEGROWN air carriers want the Philippines to impose a three to five-year ban on the foreign deployment of skilled airline personnel.

Representatives of Air Philippines, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific Air, Asian Spirit and various maintenance, rehabilitation and overhaul (MRO) facilities operators submitted the proposed moratorium to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and the Department of Labor.

Besides imposing a moratorium on overseas deployment, the local carriers also urged the government to require foreign airline operators recruiting employed Filipino pilots and aircraft mechanics to put up training schools in the country, similar to what other countries imposed on foreign airlines to meet demand for aviation crew.

Cesar Lamberte, PAL vice president for human resource development, and Lawyer Enzo Ziga, representing the MRO facilities operators, said requiring foreign airlines to put up their own training schools is on top of their urgent request for the government to issue a three to five-year moratorium in the deployment of pilots and aircraft mechanics.

Ziga explained that a mechanic needs five to six years of training before he can be given an “A” rating. Lamberte said a pilot, on the other hand, needs seven to ten years before he becomes a Captain, adding local airlines spend millions of pesos to train their own pilots and mechanics only to lose them to foreign airlines offering triple or quadruple the salaries they earn locally.

Ziga said the country has about 14,000 licensed aircraft mechanics based on the Air Transport Office, but only 1,500 to 1,700 employed in the aviation industry are ripe for poaching.

Statistics from the POEA showed 1,159 highly trained aircraft mechanics had left the country since 2003.

In the case of pilots, the country has 700 of them, 450 of whom work for PAL.

Lamberte said 75 PAL pilots have left for foreign employment since 2003, with 15 of these leaving in the first two months of this year. Some 120 pilots from all local airlines had left the country since 2000, he added.

A recent study showed China will need some 10,000 pilots in the next 20 years and India another 4,000 in the next five years. By 2023, the industry will require 23,000 pilots, of which 6,000 will come from the Asia-Pacific region, the study said.

[PissKhanXXX]

i am not surprised...

[klavel]

finally, airline companies found a way of (temporarily) blocking skilled pilots from transferring to foreign airlines..but the 3-5 yrs. moratorium will just serve as a "training period" for these pilots and eventually leave...well, at least they were able to serve our airlines..knowing the risk involve in their work, they (pilots) do deserve higher compensation and sad to say, most foriegn airlines are capable of offering such plus benefits..

[FK]

this people are not desperate they are just in demand...

[vern]

Way to go screwing people who have put in the time in their field by limiting their access to employment. If they can't compete, these airlines should take their bags and leave.

[Wind Shear]

What the... that's unconstitutional! You can't ban the deployment for such as silly reason!

[PissKhanXXX]

how desperate and animalistic is that!?

the government would be digging an even deeper hole for themselves if they accede to this moratorium.

[Freeza]

after what the PAL pilots treatment receive from its management years years ago during their last labor strike PAL deserves to lose its pilots

[Gwynhuever]

dili ra man unta ni sa mga pilots...apil tanan like nurses...engineers...etc nga mang gawas ...kay ma "brain drain" ang country...pero mag unsa man sad ang mga propesyonals sa ato nga wa may maayong trabaho diba...so mapugos jud ug langyaw...kinsa gud intawon gusto mo abroad kon naa pa lang maayong suweldo sa ato...kahayahay ra sa ato ah...wa pay mingaw....pero kon di sad nila ma offer ang benefits or suweldo equivalent to working abroad...manlarga jud....mao ta na ang sulbahon no...ang unemployment ug ang poor compensation di kay mag 5 years ban....superficial ra kaayo nga solusyon....unconstitutional pa jud...

[klavel]

^^sakto jud mam! dili ma-compensate ang kamingaw sa pamilya ug loved ones if ur working overseas..practical na lng jud ang mga taw ron..kung mka-offer lng jud atong nasud ug sweldo na bawt2x rapud..to the point naa pud kay ma-save not just "isang kahig, isang tuka"...