Originally Posted by
sevenforseven
And to think the entire time I thought the race to the bottom started with offering 250 hour pilots who would work for peanuts an FO position on that Super Shiny Jet. I had never considered that it was all GoJet's fault.
The things you learn here!
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Wasn't it was started the first time that a larger airline paid for a smaller airline to fly routes/planes/people for them (outsourcing)?
Originally Posted by
sevenforseven
Yes most certainly. That and GoJet and ONLY GoJet have destroyed this industry.
I didn't say gojet was the ONLY, I said they were 'one of' if not the first. Great mistakes, Gulfstream intnl...etc. were always the bottom feeders of the regionals (probably weren't that much of a threat to the larger, jet regionals though), but gojet was one of if not the first regionals (flying rj's) that showed managements that pilot groups were willing to stab each other in the back for their own benefit. And, they learned to use that against us. Where do you think managements got the idea that dangling new planes and quick upgrades in front of pilots in exchange for less would actually work? I'm not a regional airline history expert, but I don't know of any other companies where this happened (around the same time) before gojet did it, do you?
Does anyone know when the "rate reset" started to appear in regionals' contracts with majors? I suspect it was around the time of gojet's creation