Originally Posted by
seafeye
Not meaning to devalue your post. It has some good points. Although Comair did a great job of bringing up the industry in a 2001 contract. 11 years later they are fighting for survival. Mainline management will do everything in their power to keep the standard low at regionals. If we today had a 2001 Comair contract, we would be facing the same fate. I wish i was wrong and that we could turn around this industry but i believe it is too far fragmented.
No devaluation taken
And mgmt will do as you said.And Regional mgmt will be all for it too.
ML pilots need to come up to bat for the RJ drivers.
You brought up Comair and I remember a group that started as a result of that-The RJ Defense Fund-They believed that ALPA did not have the RJ drivers best interest at heart. I tend to agree with that.
But the disdain that some ML pilots have for RJs and RJ operators only serves mgmt that wants to divide and conquer. We need to approach this not as a ML or RJ issue-but as a 121 issue. An airline is an airline. An airline pilot is an airline pilot.
The above takes unity and deep pockets for the PR blitz. The war chest needs to be cracked open to do this.But I fear that those who control that war chest will fail to see the importance of it. Many of the pilots on this site will never see a WB command. Many will be on RJs for their whole career.
The pay the top the most at the expense of the junior guys is a form of trickle down economics that has not seemed to work.
But as usual I could be wrong.