Couldn't agree with Miles on this.I am sure the airlines would have attempted this if it wasn't for Sept. 11. Because of the security risks it will never happen. Indian workers in IT industry? Hmm.. Don't get me started on that. I have stories to tell like the Aerofloat bribing issue. I find most of the India tied IT companies, or people they represent to be low on the business ethics and in their modus operandi. BAHA Fan of work visas when they contribute to the economy -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryant Petitt Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:59 AM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fwd: Re: [Sky-1] RE: Delta announces up to 7,000 job cuts ...This is from a Rail Foamer Friend of mine! Pretty interesting! Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- MilesPost@xxxxxxx wrote: > From: MilesPost@xxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:42:03 EDT > Subject: Re: [Sky-1] RE: Delta announces up to > 7,000 job cuts > To: skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx, mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx, > canadian_pacific_ry@xxxxxxx > > In a message dated 9/9/2004 5:22:47 AM Pacific > Daylight Time, > skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > With U.S. military activities on the rise in recent > years, it seems like > there may be a new crop of pilots ready and willing > to work -- for less -- within > 1-3 years. Maybe Song could hire them as the new > bus drivers of the sky 'for > a song'. > > ************************************************************ > > We could extrapolate on that philosophy even more > and bring over a bunch of > pilots from India and China on extended work visas. > I'm sure they'd probably > be willing to fly a plane for one-one-hundredth of > the salary of your typical > Delta pilot. The concept of bringing cheap, > exploitable workers here to the > U.S. on extended work visas has already happened in > the Silicon Valley. The > place is crawling with people from India. > > If you can't relocate the factory (or airline) to a > country where there's a > limitless supply of cheap, exploitable labor, you > can always relocate the > workers to whereever the work is. > > Think how much fun it will be for the control tower > operators and air traffic > controllers to try and translate all those weird > foreign dialects! Listening > in on a radio scanner will be a riot! > > And just think how cheap airfares are destined to > become! > > We're witnessing the "Wal-Mart-ization" of our > economy. > > "Always the low price leader. Always." > > ~Miles Post > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool