[QUOTE=As they attempt to renegotiate their leases again and have aircraft taken back, they are the poster-child for a business that should simply "go away". I'm sure HB didn't default on their payments and go into bankruptcy "because of GL", but again, dragging down the entire industry and having to renegotiate, I have to wonder if it didn't help put some of the nails in the coffin, as GL has simply been pumped up by non-EAS government pork as much of their business. I never want people to lose their jobs, but this is one that makes it worse for everyone else out there, it's not that they earn 1 or 2 dollars less per hour, it's the 13K...I mean seriously, how do you even defend that? That's less than half of what I started out at. That's pretty blatant "one regional worse than the others". How much worse can it get?[/QUOTE]

Once again, what are you talking about all this aircraft stuff? What planes are getting taken away? Lakes is getting planes back to cover new flying...
You won't find any Laker who defends 15K/ yr... so where do you get that from? Nobody comes to Lakes for the pay. You have to understand that we are fighting for a pay increase right now. Nobody cares what you started out at and I would never use your pay as a benchmark for my life. All I know is that since I survived on Lakes pay that I can survive working anywhere. Pretty good LIFE lesson don't you think? You don't see Lakers whining about the pay because we learn to live with it for now. We don't need you telling the world how bad it is because you have no idea what it's like. I can tell you how to survive living on 15K. No government assistance, no kids, no help from mommy and daddy.