Originally Posted by
flyinaway411
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btw, i love how certain threads can sit there and slam a particular pilot group for being a bottom feeder, but when one group of pilots stands up and says they wont fly an aircraft for a particular rate, and then gets punished via an alter-ego carrier, THEY should have secured the flying! we've been in negotiations for 3+ yrs ppl without a section TA'd in more than a year, you think we'd still be at those rates that we "secured" the flying at or no? you guys need to get real.
Well let's be realistic. Why would the company be willing to negotiate anything on a dying certificate when they've got the 50+ seat airplanes on the other certificate? I'm just from the side lines but it looks like the future of TSA is very bleak. No doubt what happened in 05 was unfortunate, but they didn't secure the flying so the union now in 09 has nothing to work with in this economy. Even UA is saying we don't prefer 50 seaters. What's done is done, GJ is pretty much flooded with applicants as well as actual former ALPA pilots. We need to figure out how to save TSA.