Originally Posted by
ColdWhiskey
For myself, and a very large percentage of current F9 pilots, the SLI was a career ending proposition with Frontier/RAH. Over 1600 regional pilots went ahead of me on the combined list. That guarantees that if seperation does not happen, I will never upgrade, will be perpetually stagnated, and continually moving down the list, as 1600 RAH pilots move in front of me.
Without seperation, there is no future for me (and a huge percentage of my F9 peers) with Frontier Airlines, and as such, I would just as soon see it fail, than to see an undeserving RAH pilot take my seat.
A career ending proposition? Besides the fact that the CA spots were protected, does it EVER occur to you F9 guys that the vast majority of the native RAH list has ZERO desire to stick around here for 6 years and wait for an airbus spot? With the projected hiring industry-wide over the next ten years, I would bet that 60-70% of the 1600 pilots that went above you will not even be here by the date the fence would come down. The other 30-40% will be in the left seat of an E-Jet and might not want to go to the bus depending on QOL etc. Hypothetically, if this whole mess is still going in 6 years or whenever the fence is now, you may take a small hit to your seniority, but it would be minimal.
I know any hit to seniority sucks (I got thrown under everyone at Lynx; I get it.) but to say it is career ending in this situation is a huge exaggeration.
I don't mean to be a di*k, but most of our pilots have much bigger career ambitions than F9.