This is a quote from Flying the Line II...

"In fact, a plausible case can be made that intangible considerations of prestige and status played a powerful role in motivating top airline executives like Ferris, Lorenzo, and later, Carl Icahn, the corporate raider and financial manipulator who would seizeTWA in 1986.Perhaps their drive to cut pilot salaries sprang from competitive urges run amok, a kind of antilabor feeding frenzy among boardroom sharks.To be able to walk into the exclusive forums where these top CEOs rubbed elbows, where they could revel in their colleagues’approval (or envy) of the way they had stood tall against labor,particularly the haughty pilots, might explain a lot. Certainly, rational economic analysis cannot entirely explain the economic damage that Lorenzo and Ferris did to ALPA, their airlines, and ultimately themselves.Answers might be available in the field of abnormal psychology, however."

Frontier, particularly Flight Ops (scheduling, payroll) have modified the way they interpret several sections of our CBA. They creatively reassign pilots and then reduce their pay for the reassignments. Imagine having to work on a day off for free or for a reduced pay rate, how would this make you feel? This has been going on for a short period of time but the effects have been extreme. Frontier used to have one of the most productive pilot groups in the industry (hours flown per pilot). The current regime is training pilots to fly less due to the nickel and dime atmosphere. Now pilots fly less and sick calls have spiked (shocker) due to inefficient pairings. The leadership is scratching their heads with one hand and finger pointing with the other.

They say our CBA is the problem. The same CBA that has been in effect since 2007 (with BK concession pay rates) and the same CBA that was extended twice, once in 2008 and once in 2011!!!

Oil is cheap, profit margins have never been higher. Pilot productivity should be sky high, unfortunately the folks in charge have destroyed the moral of one of the most motivated groups in the industry. One must ask themselves why? They are literally stepping over a dollar to save a penny. It reminds me of a saying..

"Never push a loyal person to the point they no longer give a ****". They did, and now this pilot group no longer gives a ****. Btw, I know this message board is read by a few folks in the GO. I hope they read this, print it, and let it sink in. The sooner the better.