My personal view on the we bought you issue is this:

1.) Our scope mandates the lists must be merged. There's no way around this which is why you guys are fighting so hard to find a way around it. Pilots actively helping to break scope, sounds just wrong to me.

2.) Federal law does not allow for a staple. (Had the F9 SLI team gone in with a different approach it might have gone much differently. Alas they did not so more than likely their proposal was tossed out the window shortly after reading page 1)

3.) My upgrade time has now increased because at the very least my management team, instead of pursuing CPA contracts is busy trying to learn it's @$$ from a hole in the ground dealing with running an airline that flies for itself. Skywest got a deal with Airways, we've missed out on a few others as well.

4.) My feeling is that I don't deserve your chair, and you don't deserve my chair. But if their is growth on the Airbus side of the yard, should my awarded number come up, I'd like to hve the option to bid over there. I know you all say we should go straight to the bottom. If I went I'd have only the 20 defectees or how ever many went below me that gave up there spot early. (Tier III) Basically I'd be at the bottom. At the same time you guys should have some sort of protection that if F9 goes tits up and we secure a large CPA or have a ton of attrition you can fly here and stay current with a decent QOL until you find a better place to be.

5.) I understand the argument that you guys did your time in the regionals already. What about all the UAL furloughs and AA furloughs we have working here? They all came back when times were tough and haven't demanded to go to the top. Rather than get ****ed at the RAH natives, get ****ed that BB and Co have stalled us out of a contract for almost 5 years now. The price goes up every year. The animosity in this relationship did not start with local 357/1224/747. It came from FAPA. Had you guys come out with the RPC idea right away and meant it, before we were able to get our ducks in a row in 2010, it would have won easily. Most people here were fed up with IBT, myself included. There has been a dramatic shift in the way things work around here. If you guys took the time to get involved with your new union you would see that. There's plenty of room under 1 roof here.


If BB is able to completely wash his hand of everything F9, and you guys so longer see 1 cent of RAH money and are completely with someone else, I longer have any sort of flow through. i'm more than fine with that. But as long as it's one company, or there's some sort of financial relationship, we need to be 1 team. End of story.