Originally Posted by
captainv
Ominous, the shoe's been on the other foot for years now, so you're a little late to the party. DAL chose where the airplanes came from, not us, but then pilots love to blame other pilots for DAL's misguided decisions. You're not exactly an original thinker on this, but if you really feel the need to beat a dead horse, by all means, flail away.
Not sure why I'm bothering to respond to this, but oh well...
I agree, DAL chose what planes go where. I disagree that the pilots were not even partly to blame. Comair pilots got burned by the 'real airliner' carrot (read: SJS). you want unity against 'evil DAL', yet the Comair pilots were all quite ok straying from unity to get shiny new (or newish) jets.
Lesson 1: never take concessions for growth. Business simply doesn't work that way.
Lesson 2: don't throw a pilot group, or groups, under a bus and then expect unity from them when your chips are down.
I digress, as my original point was, and still is, that it is ironic to hear Comair pilots on here complaining about other regionals taking 'their' airplanes. But hey, good luck to you all. I mean that.
