Originally Posted by
RyanP
You don't get it.. most new people don't get it. I didn't really fully understand the situation either before i started years ago. It's extremely easy to look past everything negative just to get out of that piston engine deathtrap flying over the mountains at night. I get that, we were all there at one point (at least most of us were). But I did know that I wasn't going sell my soul and go to some crappy contract airline just to get into a big jet though.
This is the whole damn problem with the Regionals. They take naive people with SJS that are willing to get into a jet "at any cost", and exploit that to their advantage. Exactly like you are describing.. you don't care that the pay and contract sucks, you are aware of it, but you are willing to overlook all that.
Who cares if it's a $2 pay raise from what you are doing now. Taking a job at an Airline, knowing full well in advance they have a sub-par contract and sub-par wages, just so you can fly a "170" is detrimental to all of us. It hurts all of us in the long run. Why would they ever fix the problem if people are lined up around the block for jobs?
Then those sub-par contract airlines take flying away from other airlines with better contracts. Then the better contract, better paying airlines lose flying, lose money, lose CA seats, and are basically just put in a situation were they are forced (in some cases at bankruptcy gunpoint) to either lower their contract/pay to compete with the other bottom feeders or lose their jobs.. and the downward cycle continues..
If naive people weren't flocking to those jobs, then the situation would start to reverse itself and improve.
I understand what you are saying, but there is a flaw in your reasoning. You are assuming that everyone that takes a job at RAH is suffering from terminal SJS, young or naive. While I'm not gonna argue that may be the case with some, with others that simply isn't true.
Some are experienced 121 pilots that have looked a the totality of their circumstances and made an informed decision, then went to RAH based on what fit their career needs. Also, believe it or not, there are worse regional airlines to work for. Places where RAH is a step up for their long-term career.
There seems to be a lot of anger towards people taking jobs at RAH around here. Let me ask you this? Do you believe that you the RAH union or anyone else will stop people from applying to RAH or any other airline some might categorize as a "bottom feeder?"
Let it go and turn all that frustration towards something productive. The problem isn't new hires, naive kids or SJS. The problem is zero unity, corrupt unions, the RLA and the obsession of corporate execs to increase the size of their profit margins by alienating their employees and refusing to share profit. If you waived a magic wand and made SJS go away forever, you would still have those other problems to deal with.