Originally Posted by
DryMotorBoatin
You are right. I'm still holding on to my opinion that scope ain't coming back. It would require a massive route structure overhaul and massive business model overhaul. It just won't happen. That's why I said we should work on pay, work rules, and QOL at the regional level. But Zymurgist, using a good example, proved that argument wrong. So maybe the only way to make things better is a national seniority list.
Zymurgist didn't prove anything wrong, the Comair situation was just executed without support from the rest of the industry. I have the upmost respect for Comair pilots and what they tried to do. The strike would have worked if the rest of the regional pilots followed suit. Problem is there are to many other regionals out there with pilots who would just about pay the company to fly a jet. These companies pick up the flying and under bid. Just a thought but what if when those guys went on strike there was no one to take the flying because everyone followed suit and went on strike as well? We CAN make huge changes in this Buisness but those changes would come with (IMO) short term consequences. If as a whole the major regionals all went on strike together you would effectively shut down 60-80% of flying and force management, the public and others to see how tired we are of the stuff going on. Trust me when only 50 people showed up to get on that 747 flight it would effectively change managements tune real quick. Problem is you would never get enough people on board, to many factors to deal with, thus there will never be change and that major job everyone puts up with this stuff for will be garbage in 10 years anyways do to pay cuts and out sourcing.