Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
You guys still don't get it.
We do not have good scope because those who ran (and run) our union do not want good scope....
Bar,
I've got one correction I want to make to your excellent post. It's this part......
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Some flying is considered undesirable and unable to command the pay and working conditions which meet major airline pilot standards.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Some aircraft are considered undesirable and unable to command the pay and working conditions which meet major airline pilot standards.
I can't count the number of times that we have pulled in next to an RJ that is going to a major city that used to be flown exclusively by mainline.. While we would be going to Jackson, MS, the 70 seater next to us would be headed off to Newark. Once, as we pulled in to the C gates in MSP, I looked down the row and saw where the aircraft were going:
The 73N was going to MKE
The M88 was going to BDL
The 70 seat RJ was going to PHL.
There used to be a time when RJ flying out of a hub didn't take them to big cities like PHL, BOS, EWR, LGA, BWI, DCA, etc. Now, they fly everywhere.
Apparently, it's the
aircraft that
ALPA somehow thinks is undesirable for major airline flying.
It seems that each contract they present us with contains a further erosion of our right to fly the smaller (not really that small) aircraft. It has got to stop.