Originally Posted by crgok9

Personally, I have no problem with V or Professor. They are welcome to their opinions. I think that most of the pilots on this forum are able to see past their "slanted and self serving" rhetoric. Unfortunately, this industry started down a bad side road when deregulation was enacted.

Ironically, V and Professor preach that ALPA or some other type of union is a must at B6 and that the fact that we do not currently have one is the sole reason for the demise of the industry pay scales. V, Professor...aren't you guys ALPA? Why did your union allow for your pay scale decrease? I'm not sure that I understand...you mean the union couldn't stop the decline? You're ALPA, c'mon, you shouldn't have lost a cent! You should have been a stronger and more cohesive group...why give up so easy? Oh wait...perhaps the many ALPA regional carriers that have pilots starting at 15K a year while flying RJ's into the same busy airports as the rest of us set the ground work for the decline of the major airline pay. These poor guys should be paid much more than they are, however, ALPA sees this differently and actually negotiated and endorsed these terribly low pay scales for "jet equipment" pilots.

You have got to be kidding me! As a whole our industry has so many problems that have brought us all to our knees from the once lofty heights that many of us were once sitting. B6 did not do this...we kind of helped ourselves down the stairs in some cases. In many cases the government simply pushed us down the stairs with the "anti-labor" bankruptcy court judges. Oh yeah...bankruptcy...did B6 cause that too? I was under the misconception that poor management had something to do with it...just a guess.