Originally Posted by
flysooner9
Think you dont understand our situation here. It's not about flying "bigger" airplanes, its about having planes to fly period. Our EMB135/140 fleet and maybe even some of our 145's will be going away. They will be replaced by E175's most likely. So it wouldn't be taking concessions to just fly "bigger" planes. It would be taking concessions to have a job period.
I know exactly your situation I'm not sure how long you have been at Eagle or in the industry for but take a look around. We all know what your going through from mainline all the way down to regionals. Hell since I have been at Republic I have seen all the CRJ-200's go (25 I think), all the EMB-135's go (25 or so I think), half of our Emb-145's go (between 20-30)in april we park 4 EMB-170's (we sold one last year so thats 5), we are parking the last of the Q400's (that was 12) Finally we are returning 2 EMB-190's to the lessor here in a couple months.
Thats a total of 94 lost planes in 5 years with 2 furloughs, But you will not hear one single pilot at Republic say "lets take less pay so we can get more flying. Suck it up the only way this industry is going to get any stronger is if we all stick together, from majors to regionals, and say we will not sell ourselves out for more airplanes anymore and we want to be compensated to do our jobs.
Originally Posted by
CANAM
Semantics semanitcs. What if the judge forces AE to fly 777s? What if she makes AE fly for free?! At the end of the day, I'm assuming AE's MEC would have to negotiate a payscale. The AE MEC should walk away, but they never do. This will only further slow the career progression of pilots by making them fly larger planes for less and less money.
Put it this way, if you create a time machine, go back in time. All the way back to 1990. Find the nearest mainline pilot and tell him/her that very soon regionals will be flying jets. The pilot would laugh. When you told him/her they'd be 76-99 seat jets, he/she would litterally die.
Not to get to technical here because I agree with your point but in 1990 mainline was flying 100 seat and less jets. DC-9-30, 727 - 100 and ADV, 737 - 200 F - 100 I'm sure there are others but thats all I can come up with.