Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Nice move, slowplay.
Somebody making inconvenient points? Just call him a "troll." Or better yet, this:
Way to insult your fellow pilots, the vast majority of whom came to Delta from lower paying aviation jobs. Sad that you would stab so many of your fellow pilots in the back like that. No wonder you like full time ALPA work and don't fly the line much.
I don't think he stabbed anyone in the back. That was a face shot.
The word "unity" sounds good, but there's no more direct attack on professional unity than doing the same work as your peers for less money.
Nothing but respect for the hard work going on at regional airlines, but it blows me away when junior guys rail on the old salts for "selling," or losing, or relaxing scope. Show me where in any major airline contract it lays out the crappy work rules and low pay at the regionals. Guys fly there because it provided the quickest access to turbine time to build your flight time. Because of circumstance, unwillingness, or inability to gain experience by other means- guys in that world are willingly engaging in a known transaction: crappy pay for experience and flight time.
Man up and admit it- that willingness to work for less is destroying the very thing they aspire to.
Everyone wants to talk about what a pilot is worth, how much we used to make, etc.
A pilot is "worth" whatever he or she is willing to work for, period.