Originally Posted by
fatsopilot
You can place the blame where you want however you hit the nail right on the head, without Delta/NW there never would have been a Pinnacle in the first place. Pinnacle pilots would have gone straight to Delta/NW or other career carries and this mess would have never happened. It is what it is now and it would be nice if ALPA could come up to some solution to the race to the bottom. What kind of backwards world do we live in where experience in the cockpit is a liability?
This is not limited to aviation. It's business, & it sucks. Outsourcing to the lowest labor cost to maximize profit is a cancer that exists in many, many occupations.