Originally Posted by
FAULTPUSH
That single sentence summarizes so much:
1. This false notion that FAPA doesn't "exist".
2. This is HUGE - your union is "against management", not FOR the pilots. that kind of net-sum-zero mindset is very damaging to your bargaining efforts.
I'd like to see a little more decency and professionalism from the RAH pilots in occupying a jumpseat instead of a cabin seat to allow customers (who enable your paycheck) to get where they're going. More than once, I've had RAH crewmembers leave revenue passengers behind with no more reason than "I don't feel like it". I have NEVER had a Frontier pilot or flight attendant do that.
I respect the fact you value your customers, but taking a jumpseat when on positive space is a slippery slope. I have been left behind on Frontier twice because positive space crew members had filled the jumpseat. Gotta say its a pretty crappy feeling to completly miss dinner with my wife that I have not seen in 6 days because you guys decide to use the jumpseats to help your company, not your fellow pilots like the reciprocal jumpseat agreements were created for. I know im not the only one that has been screwed by this practice as well.
Sooner or later you guys are going to leave behind a head of a JS committee and risk losing a reciprocal agreement. I know alot of you dont commute, but I have seen my share of you guys living it up on UAL across the Pacific in business class while on vacation. Sure would suck to lose a privilege like that because you wanted to save Frontier one oversold flight at a time.