Reading these posts, I couldn't agree more with Dawg. This place is out of control as mentioned numerous times. What really concerns me is that, even with a contract, and let me thank our union guys, they are doing what they can to make this happen, and thanks to the IBT and local who are footing the bill for this painstaking process, but even if it was a great contract, we still have this ridiculous management team. There are so many facets to this operation and all of them are completely out of control and many are dangerously so. I can't help but think that, even if we have a great contract, we will still have to deal with new dispatchers, new mx personnel, new everyone in every department, including pilots, some of whom will be going from flying props to MD80s with 2 months on the line?!! Are you kidding me? As long as this place is a stepping stone for every employee, we as pilots will be responsible for training these people and in so doing, will be involved in arguments, finger pointing and carpet dances trying to explain our side of the story, constantly. The paperwork issues, the min fuel policies, the horrendous engine mx will continue. I mean, look at the most recent letter from AL, he says we will use "industry best practices" from now on with mx and other functions. The next day we get a letter from our fleet manager or whoever he is, and he says, paraphrasing, 'heh guys, you keep writing up our airbus for engine vibration because it reads too high but don't worry it really isn't, and our mx is going to fix it on its next big mx check…..in 2016.' What the?? 2016?!!! Nothing is going to change here until we get rid of all of this management team. They are trying, like another poster said here, to run an unsustainable model that is making more money like an engine can make more power, temporarily, by over revving the engine but we know how that works long term. I cannot believe that the FAA isn't all over shutting it down. 6 engine failures, some shut down, some catastrophic, in the last month, now this email about blowing off mx on a vibrating engine for 2 years. Unbelievable.

I want this place to be a safe, well run airline that is good to its employees and its customers, and I know others feel the same. We used to write emails to management with suggestions on how to make it better. For years we did this, nothing changed. This is how management wants it. The ONLY thing that matters is profit margin. I appreciate that profit is important, it is why businesses run, but its so disappointing to work for a place where that is the ONLY goal.