Originally Posted by Tsuda

I asked a ramper today as we were pushing back near a Republic E175 if the company approached him to take a pay cut in order to work the new aircraft. The look on his face was priceless, and his choice of words to answer was "colorful" to say the least. This very idea that management possesses that an employee to make sacrifices in order to receive the tools of their trade is absolutely, unequivocally insane. The only thing more ridiculous than the Company suggesting that they will make business decisions of a multibillion dollars company effecting thousands of employees base on the compensation package of a several hundred pilots is the gullibility of the pilots who believe them.