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.
I can appreciate the crap sandwich that you were dealt, but I dont understand the logic of blaming the regional guys. You say that regional guys undercut mainline jobs? Sorry, that's just too oversimplified. The guys who sold you out were the senior mainline guys who voted to relax scope. Your management took full advantage of that and outsourced your job. It was given away, not taken. I only hope that you have learned from that giant mistake those guys made and help restore what was lost in future contracts.
I think regional guys were duped just as much as you were, no one taking these jobs expected to be there more than a few years, not the decade or more many have been.
Regionals are having lots of problems staffing right now because the appeal of this career has taken a major hit over the last 10 years. It's not the 1500 hour rule, its the realization that taking on monumental debt to be stuck at a regional at poverty wages for years on end is killing this career.