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Old 08-14-2014 | 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ZBowFlyz

If you are hung up on a dollar (or whatever) an hour, then you are missing, like I said, the forest for the trees. All regionals suck. Perhaps GoJet sucks a little more on the surface? Perhaps TSA has a better contract? If your career goals end at the first RJ then you might want to consider regional contracts as one of the top 2 or 3 items on your priority list.

We would all like to make more money. And we should. But the cold hard fact is that for now, we make X. Until we change the structure of the industry this will not change. It's the way it is. That's not to say we should accept concessions, or roll over to management. Its just the dollars and cents of the business model for now. Is it better to find a job and go to work or stand on your soap box and get all righteous about other airlines? That's for you to decide. Be an adult.

There are some valid concerns about the formation of GoJet, 8 or 10 years ago. Common sense tells anyone that wants to know that none of these guys bad mouthing us would have much to say if GoJetters weren't getting hired. That's really what upsets them. GoJet alum are everywhere but gosh darn it, FlyingKat is crediting 120 hrs a month all winter on his/her 145.
As long as pilots are willing to accept what GoJet, etc are offering, and by extension be complicit with the shenanigans that started the operation, the industry will never change. The day you showed up for indoc you took a concession.



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I am not judging, Lord knows I am a sinner, but.......

Doing the right thing is not easy or convenient.
Doing the right thing can be hard on you and/or yours.
Doing the right thing does not get you a pat on the head and a cookie.


And anyone looking for the quick upgrade shortcut, buyer beware. Lots of pilots came to grief taking that gamble at RAH, 9E, etc. If the music stops and there is no quick upgrade, are you ok with whatever is left?? I have flown with a decent number who weren't, and bailed out of their gig when the quick upgrade did not materialize to start over again with us. They have all compared my regional very favorably to what they left behind.....
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