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[Lady Vulpix]

OK, Roy, Heald and company, that particular discussion is taking up most of the thread and obscuring everything else, so I'd say it merits a thread of its own. So please make one and continue the discussion there.

Now on to more news: all domestic flights within Argentina are currently cancelled as pilots are on strike. Why? Because Aerolíneas Argentinas, the main local airline, arranged a flight in which the pilot and co-pilot belonged to 2 different unions. The 2 unions are at war against each other and no member of one will fly on the same plane as a member of the other, even as a passenger. So that resulted in all pilots from both unions going on strike. Add that to the fact that the Aeroparque airport is down for remodelling and all its flights had been re-routed to Ezeiza airport... so Ezeiza's a real mess right now, crowded with people coming and going to different countries, plus all the people who are sitting there waiting to see if and when they'll finally be able to fly.

[Heald]

OK, Roy, Heald and company, that particular discussion is taking up most of the thread and obscuring everything else, so I'd say it merits a thread of its own. So please make one and continue the discussion there.

Thanks. I have said on more than one occasion I had no interest in continuing the discussion but didn't want to outright call a moratorium on it in order to avoid certain allegations. But now you, as the thread starter and as an Admin called it, I'm obliged to enforce this. Move on, please.

Now on to more news: all domestic flights within Argentina are currently cancelled as pilots are on strike. Why? Because Aerolíneas Argentinas, the main local airline, arranged a flight in which the pilot and co-pilot belonged to 2 different unions. The 2 unions are at war against each other and no member of one will fly on the same plane as a member of the other, even as a passenger. So that resulted in all pilots from both unions going on strike. Add that to the fact that the Aeroparque airport is down for remodelling and all its flights had been re-routed to Ezeiza airport... so Ezeiza's a real mess right now, crowded with people coming and going to different countries, plus all the people who are sitting there waiting to see if and when they'll finally be able to fly.

I've always felt unions are the appendix of the body of society: they perhaps served some useful purpose many, many years ago, but now they are useless, worthless organ, that endangers the rest of the body when it becomes inflamed. Unions are utterly ruining the UK, they ought to just be dismantled since most of them deal in organised crime and break most of the laws concerning unions anyway.