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They didn't "grow a pair". They puffed out their chest & Uncle Hulie popped it like a balloon. Their pilot group and tough guy MEC didn't secure the a/c BEFORE they negotiated a new pay rate. Yes. It's their own fault. Not the pilots at G7. But they sure do like to blame every GoJet pilot for their problems.
Pinnacle guys did that on the -900 to a degree. We were told we were getting -900's and people bid them WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE PAY RATE WOULD BE. Except for the guys already in ATL that wouldn't have to commute to fly them, they were the laughing stock of the company/industry and a prime example of SJS. So you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. Good for them for not flying an aircraft without a known pay rate. Cause you know darn well Hulas would have wanted them to fly bigger airplanes at the same rate. Apparently you didn't see the shabby rate Pinnacle wanted to pay the -900 guys who opted to fly it without a known pay scale. Even the arbitrated rate wasn't that stellar....