Originally Posted by
Nevets
I've been refuting it for the last 20 posts! We are operating under the rules management writes for us in the operating manual. Management makes the deals with mainline part era and manage the operation. The pilots operate the same now as they would if we were losing money. In other words, profits or not, it's irrelevant in this discussion. I'm talking about what you 3000 pilots do regardless of profits! What do you contribute? Nothing more than an anchor on our negotiations at this point.
Will anyone ever answer my questions? Or will you guys keep throwing out the same straw man argument about profits?
Yeah but the thing is that it's not the pilots with the credit card. That's management. Which is precisely why it's irrelevant to the conversation at hand. If Skywest had bad management and the same pilots they do now, they would lose money. You see my point yet?
Thanks for typing it for me, the pilots are simply flying what they negotiated with the company. The company bid a contract that they can't fly, they need to talk to mainline but instead they turn to pilots. This cycle has been going on for years and the SKW pilots want the EXJ pilots to take concessions, work for less so the company can make a profit and have more success in future bids... In other words s do they can underbid other airlines.
One airline takes cuts, then the other matches it and management underbids, just to repeat the cycle again.
But as long as I am flying and get to mainline right! The more we do this the more reason we give management to continue transferring mainline jobs to the regionals. We are flying F100, DC-9 and similar size equipment for what the FA used to get paid... We are our worse enemies.