Professionalism is being pursued

Sir - I agree with Peter Lindell on lowering salary scales and the "deprofessionalisation" of skills (Letters, Flight International, 28 February-5 March, P37). This is an issue, which I have just raised in a letter to the editor of the British Airline Pilots Association Log.

Mr Llendell is wrong, however, in his statement that "...there has not been a sound from the two pilots' bodies in the UK" about this issue.

I have consistently commented on this issue in the Independent Pilots Association's (IPA) Newsletter, as far back as one of the first issues in April 1993 and as late as the current issue.

GEORGE BACZKOWSKI

Director/Editor

IPA Newsletter

Billingshurst, Sussex, UK

Source: Flight International