Originally Posted by Kill Bill
i find it absolutely amazing that the JB guys here don't get my point. i don't care whether you agree with it or not since it's no sweat off my extremities but to continually claim you don't understand the point i've clearly made is, well, odd.
you make substandard wages, even more substandard than the rest of us and going lower with the 190's and you have that 5-year sword hanging over you that you like to pretend doesn't exist. i hate to break this news to you (again) but santa ain't in the airline business. virtually every single start-up LCC was created for one reason: to pay gigantic dividends to the original investors who will gradually divest themselves of stock ownership as the market catches up with them as it is now doing with JB.
but, in one sense you're absolutely right: you won't need a union.
Hey Bill
I understand your point perfectly. In fact I used to agree with you. The year before I left the Navy (2000) we used to look down on anybody not hired by the big three (AA,DAL,UAL) If one of the retireing pilots in the office would tell us they are going to work for CAL, or NWA we would say "hey thats cool congrats" then when they left the room we would look at each other and roll or eyes knowing exactly why. I kept that same attitude into my first year at DAL. Often riding the crew van in ATL I would see a 40ish Airtran guy and wonder to myself "whats in his background?" DUI, bust? who knows. You see I felt I was better than they were. I wondered why they would work for lower wages than me. Surely I was better than they were.
Then 911 happened, my job at DAL is gone! Did some non-airline work for awhile but it just wasn't flying. After a year I was lucky enough to get a call from a LCC and even happier to get hired. Found I enjoyed the job way more than I expected. Fun flying, great guys, security and a piece of the company. I guess I learned Kharma goes around.
Hey good luck to you!