Originally Posted by
Great Santini
Pretty crappy thing to say to a guy that invested his career into an airline that was, for most, a retirement airline. Especially since those jobs were outsourced to the RAH pilots. Frontier, post 9-11, was also a "retirement airline" and the attrition rate was almost nonexistent until they were bought by Republic. So call it a stepping stone if you like, but most F9 pilots targeted this airline and planned to never move on until now.
My point exactly, and you, along with Doug are illustrating it extremely well.
First of all, the Republic pilots that "supposedly flew your outsourced" work did it because of the DECISIONS THEIR MANAGEMENT made, not because they willingly wanted to put other pilots out of work!! I just don't understand why you and the other F9 pilots on here aren't grasping that concept? They were following their contract, I'm sure not because they liked what was happening, but BECAUSE THEY WERE REQUIRED TO BY LAW!!
I'm actually glad that some of you old Midwest guys have come out of the woodwork to respond. (I wasn't flame-bating, just calling some of this nonsense out.) [Hoping that "Dirty Rat" chimes in as well.]
How about looking back to your own contract? Your own management? Or even the unity your in-house union and MEC had when they signed the contract you worked under, allowing a MACK truck to drive through your Section 1.
I feel for you, your pilot group, and the F9 guys as well, but this blaming other pilot groups (i.e. RAH) when we should be unifying our collective anger towards management needs to end. Otherwise this anger will continue to metastasize to other labor groups, organizations and the once esteemed career of an airline pilot is lost for good.
Fly safe,
GJ