Originally Posted by
seattlepilot
We low balled? I love it that you blame the pilot group for losing your flying.
It's at least partially to mostly your fault.
1. You took the job at RAH knowing what the place was.
2. Your pilot group refuses to do what is necessary to get a new contract. You guys complain and complain about how tough it is and how Bedford and his goons won't negotiator, but why should they? You guys consistently operate on time, which keeps filling Bedford's wallet. Until you guys man up and collectively do what is needed to get a new contract you will always be towards the bottom of the compensation and quality in the industry. Stop whining about your crappy pay and making websites and actually do something. Do what the AA pilots did or what the ASA pilots did. Both groups got better deals within months of doing one simple thing: their job by the book.
If you guys don't do something then you'll continue to grow and undercut everyone else. The rest of us at the other carriers don't want to be the next Ameican Eagle partially because of you. We need regionals to have better contracts so that longer term the costs of outsourcing are too high and flying remains at or returns to mainline.
Yes management at RAH and AMR shares blame too, but own up to your share of the responsibility. More importantly
man up and do something to better your situation instead of just crying about how bad things are at RAH on your stupid website (which doesn't appear to work since Bedford is still filling classes).