Originally Posted by
tom14cat14
This is exactly why it is the same as a pilot voting in concessions to save their job. Those Pilots are making a decisions purely based on how it will affect them not the industry. And a lot of people say it is ok because it has become pretty normal to chase the planes. This is why mainline management knows that all they have to do is shift flying to a new carrier and they get what they want. Just think if all of us didn’t chase the planes. They would lose power to keep shoving the contracts down our throat. They know they can throw the planes somewhere cheap and pilots will follow.
I invite you to tell my wife to "take one for the team" and stick it out at a company that is shrinking, I'm commuting, took a big pay cut because of the 4 year FO cap, and I can't hold a line anymore. That would be an amazing conversation I bet. And the fact that she knows I could get a job at a different company that has explosive growth with so many more opportunities would make that conversation even better.