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Airline employees in Taiwan respond to Pilot Union’s yellow ribbon movement<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Over 300 flight crew members hang up yellow ribbons at airline quarantine hotels in solidarity<\/p>\n

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) \u2014 Dissatisfied with the official response to its demands, over 300 flight crew members at three quarantine hotels hung up yellow ribbons to pay respects to the pilot who recently passed away due to stress and to send a \u201cdistress signal\u201d to the public.<\/p>\n

Following the death of a Venezuelan pilot on Saturday (Oct. 23), the Pilots Union Taoyuan demanded that pilots should not be assigned to fly during their quarantine period to avoid cross-infection and that crew members get at least three days of free time a month.<\/p>\n

However, when Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) Spokesperson Chuang Jen-hsiang (\u838a\u4ec1\u7965) stumbled over his answer about the issue and failed to assure parties involved that conditions would be improved, the Pilots Union organized the yellow ribbon movement to highlight its members\u2019 desperation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 3,000 pilots in the country with the same experience and struggle feel the issue deeply. They actively expressed the wish to make a statement together through collective action!\u201d the union wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrew members across nationalities, airlines, and positions hung up yellow ribbons simultaneously outside their windows\u201d at quarantine hotels, wrote the union. \u201cThrough today\u2019s movement, the union hopes to pay the deepest respects to colleagues who have passed away, and at the same time send a clear \u2018distress signal\u2019 to authorities and society on behalf of flight crew staff in the country!\u201d<\/p>\n

Airline employees in Taiwan respond to Pilot Union’s yellow ribbon movement
\nCrew members staying at a quarantine hotel that refused to deliver yellow ribbons use white towels as substitutes. (Pilots Union Taoyuan photo)<\/p>\n

According to the union, over 300 crew members staying at three quarantine hotels responded to the event. It told CNA that when a hotel refused to deliver the yellow ribbons to crew members, they had to improvise and use white towels as substitutes.<\/p>\n

Other crew members on duty will join by wearing yellow ribbons in the following days, per the union.<\/p>\n

The union added that the one reported case of a pilot contracting COVID-19 shows the risks of assigning pilots to fly during quarantine periods, and it reiterated its demands, which have not changed since early September.<\/p>\n

Airline employees in Taiwan respond to Pilot Union’s yellow ribbon movement
\nA pilot’s schedule showing an endless cycle of flight duties, quarantine, and self-health management. (Pilots Union Taoyuan image)<\/p>\n

On Wednesday (Oct. 27), the union published a pilot’s \u201chellish\u201d schedule spanning a two-month period, which shows back-to-back cycles of long-distance flight duties, quarantine, and self-health management. The pilot enjoys no days of complete freedom within the 60-day period and gets to see his or her family for only three days in a 44-day period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pilot Union must stress that a schedule like this is certainly not an uncommon case, but the actual long-term struggle that domestic airline pilots generally face,\u201d the union wrote. \u201cHow could this kind of condition, this kind of reality possibly be \u2018acceptable\u2019 for the Pilot Union and pilots?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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