Originally Posted by
nwa757
Selfish has to do with any mainline pilot voting to outsource boatloads of flying to 'regionals' flying 86,000 jets on mainline routes. Thinking about themselves instead of people in their 20s and 30s trying to establish themselves in this career.
IE, sustaining thousands of express/eagle/connection jobs at food stamp wages, in order to sustain 'mainline' wages.
The shrinking of the middle class, pulling up the rope as they call it.
We are always stronger when we work together, instead of letting management fragment us apart.
I don't think anyone's scope clause allows 86,000 RJ's. I'll have to check, but that sounds a bit on the high-side. As for the rest of your post, that fight was forfeited long ago. Seeing how you feel this way, my advice is to put your thrust-lever hand where your mouth is and pull it back and walk away from the beloved RJ. Many pilots feel differently than you do and advocate more and larger jets at their regionals, thus there's plenty of "selling out" going around.