Originally Posted by
Will
Just leave the industry if the grass is greener on the other side of your fence. For everybody who thinks shutting this place down will change the regional industry you are wrong.
I propose that all the pilots who work at a substandard regional airline just quit. Do it for us, make your own point lose your job that would help us. But nobody will do that. Pilots working at those places put us in this position. We raised the bar you guys lowered it, and now you want us to fall on the sword.
The regional have changed for a long time. Gone are the days of staying at a regional for life. Closing the doors will do nothing unless all the bottom feeder regional pilots have the balls just to quit.
I talked to my rep and suggest all 9E pilots call them if they have questions the e-mails don't answer. It's a bad situation but one I believe we will get through with deep cuts. We will fight another day when the industry changes again. In closing if you are a pilot working at a bottom feeder regional look in the mirror and ask yourself have you helped the industry or hurt by taking a job where ever you work.
Since when did 9E raise any bars? It was once a bottom feeder at one point too. Getting one industry average contract ( maybe slighty above average) does not mean raising the bar.