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STILL GROUNDED
The only thing the republic pilots can fight is if the company dry leases the airplanes and MW pilots crew them. That is a RAH scope violation.
They will be 76 seat aircraft and no different then if Skywest were to fly crj 700's for MW. I think if the pay rate is right the MW pilots should be happy to take the aircraft. There is no point in swinging your pecker that the E170 is "not good enough for me to fly". If they can get a good pay rate on it that would help a lot of regional carriers pick up the $$.
If we were all one union and I mean everyone this sort of crap would not go down. The problem is that we aren't and never will be, so until management starts caring more about employees instead of shareholders and bonus money this BS is going to exist.
If there were pay rates based on weight instead of seats then the companies would not be able to whip us around by pulling some seats off. Frankly I am not sure why they should not be at regional pay based on 88 seats, 'cause it says Boeing on the hood, that seems like a dumb idea to me. Pay by the pound would be better.
All the RAH pilots can do is abide by their contract, feed their families and pay their bills. I know the MW pilots are better people, better pilots and more deserving but... oh I'll stop there.
We are all in the same frickin boat and barely floating at that. Good luck to everyone. God Bless.
MW??? You mean YX right?
Anyhow, there are no shareholders that Midwest (I meanTPG/NWA management) mangement have to please as the airline was taken private 1 year ago. TPG/NWA had failed to do anything, not even drop a penny in the poor bucket until now. They have allowed their $500 Million, keep AirTran away fund, to fail because they don't really care.
As for giving the Midwest flight crews a fair deal to fly the EMB-170 is what YX management did back at the start of summer. They told them to accept a paycut of 45-65% which would pound them smack dab in the RJ pilot payscale. The Midwest crews have flat out told them screw you.
Wait, you want to stick our friendly outstanding YX crews with 88 seat RJ payscales because it was their fault they took the job??!! Midwest management is reponsible for the flying a 717 will 20 fewer seats than standard. Don't blame the crews one second!