Originally Posted by
CGfalconHerc
They already did it to mainline pilots..using YOU to replace us. Where have you been for the last decade? Oh yeah, in the LEFT seat of an RJ flying OUR passengers to OUR cities and OUR gates. YOU undercut mainline jobs, YOU happily upgraded while mainline pilots were displaced and furloughed..where was the outrage then?? How about Comair giving the middle finger to DL furloughees who just wanted to swing gear and support their families. Lost pensions, 50% pay cuts, BK and mergers, it's already happened to mainline pilots..and we always had a myriad of RJ pilots ready to REPLACE us at a moments notice.
In return for fNWA pilots to flow BACK to the left seat of an Airlink RJ, DL is honoring the pre-merger fNWA agreement for CZ and SSP flows. How many other airlines would do that? How many fNWA pilots actually displaced into the left seat of an RJ? No mainline Capts were pay protected when they got displaced back to the right seat. Now DL offers EtD, effective only AFTER all the rest of you get a chance to sit in the left seat and get your shot at an SSP interview..and you still spit in DL's face as you whine about having to actually interview for a job at a company you evidently despise. Very well then, do us all a favor and take all that TMEL somewhere else. I'm sure there are lots of DL mainline FO's who would love to replace you in the left seat.
I've been told that it's time to turn the page on my furlough, but this whining from guys who replaced me and all this tough talk is so hypocritical it makes me sick. Next time you fly take a look in back and see how many pax have a ticket on YOUR airline, then take a look at your logbook and fill out your app to anywhere else but here.
Typical delta pilot. Blame the regional pilot for all the difficulties you've had in your career. I had nothing to do with your furlough, pay cut, bankruptcy, merger, etc... I was hired long before that. You should be blaming yourselves for laxing scope, the Great Recession, 911, etc...
Want to hear some of the crap I've been thru while flying "your" passengers around? Downgrade, base closing (3), dropping from S3 to S3C, free nonrev travel to paying $211/yr. So you aren't the only one who has had tough times with this career brother.
And you know what else buddy, we at ASA took on many of your furloughed pilots. I flew with many of them. Great folks in general. But it's this holier than thou attitude that SOME of y'all have that makes the rest of the 121 pilots in this country not care about you or your issues.