Originally Posted by
Ellen
It amazes me that there are only two responses to this and only a couple hundred views . . . This is the prime reason PILOTS and ALPA and other unions are not making progress.
I posted a real time example that is happening "NOW." The TIMING is perfect to piggyback the pilot message onto this current consumer uproar. YET . . . . as this board suggests, pilots really don't seem to care about what passengers think, just like airline management doesn't care what pilots think. Quite frankly it's pretty hypocritical.
Maybe it's just me, but "The Deer is in the crosshairs" and we are doing nothing about it. Is it that the idea of driving home our concerns to congress NOW is to far fetched for you all? Is it that you are scared to comment? Is it that you really don't care one way or another? Is it that Congress seems untouchable? What? I'm curious.
I think most do care and hope it will change, but believe they cannot really controll the issue or have much effect on change. I for one sent an email to both congressmen in my state about airline industry concerns over 2 months ago and never recieved a reply...so possibly we cannot effect change in this arena directly. Whereas which regional to work for is directly effected by our actions. Not to be a smart alak, but what would you like to see done? What would you do? Write your congressman? Then what after no answer? If you've got ideas with how to effect change then roll with it and I think many will support you and follow.