Noynoy’s lose-lose situation FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/03/2010

Noynoy’s lose-lose situation

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/03/2010 Philippine Airlines (PAL) has been forced to cancel at least 14 flights — as of last count — due to the mass resignations of their pilots, who apparently have been offered a bigger pay plus perks by a new foreign airline: Hong Kong Air and a MidEast airline. It really must be a difficult situation for PAL, having lost a lot of its pilots — some 25 of them, according to reports. Given the situation PAL faces, the airline will be hard-pressed to be able to immediately find their replacements. It really is a brain-drain problem. Workers, whether of the blue or white collar variety, are truly not earning enough to feed their families, and compared to other countries, workers are paid much higher, which is why we have been losing even our teachers to foreign employment, even as these educators work abroad, not as teachers but as domestics, many of whom face abuses. Given the hard economic times Filipinos experience and high prices in this country and with more Filipinos seeking jobs abroad, it was expected that even the professional Filipinos — doctors, nurses, engineers, and virtually all types of professionals, would be contributing greatly to the great Filipino brain-drain. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100803com2.html

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