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Originally Posted by Mr Floatplane
Hi Steve,
Friend of mine who is a Captain with a major Asian Airline (non Thai) keeps telling me he thinks he could fly into a mountain and his Asian crew would say not a word, because, he says, it is not in their culture to challenge someone with more authority…Obviously I think he is carried away with his suggestion, but it is an interesting observation….He says they are very difficult to work with, as they wont work with him as a TEAM, but as his SERVANTS (his words). Probably that relationship works fine in some environments, but certainly not in others.
In trying to preserve his authority, his crew succeeds only in increasing his work load.…So this whole saving face deal starts to get even more complicated and twisted when it is a superiors face you are trying to save even over your own!  |
That is what happened with the Thai airplane in Nepal a few years ago.
I often play golf with Belgian pilots (ex-Sabena) now flying for Asian airlines and what they tell me...