Originally Posted by
tom11011
Personally, I think its best to continue to vote no and let them shut the place down. Then at least you know where you stand. If you are an FO at any seniority level, bail now and get your 1 year upgrade anywhere else. If you are a Captain, ride it out till the shutdown, hopefully you will have been picked up by a mainline carrier by then.
There is zero incentive to voting yes other then keeping the airline afloat for some undetermined amount of time. It's going to close down one way or the other.
Voting yes doesn't do a thing for you, it doesn't add any airplanes, it only replaces what you already have. And that's not even until 2016 which might as well be 20 years from now.
Voting yes puts you in the same boat as Endeavor, meaning nobody wants to work there. You have to be able to attract FO's which this does not do. Everyone already knows the E2D didn't work.
Unemployed. Mortgage in default. Wife leaving you, with kids and 1/2 you got. And too old to be hired anywhere else. ...I don't think so.
Clearly you are a junior, single FO with nothing to lose. Right now that is an enviable position, but that definitely does not apply to the upper half of the seniority list who has something to lose.
The regional airline industry is in for a real shakeup, and there will be survivors and there will be the "comair's".
Career wise for everyone on the seniority list it would be best to be in the 'survivor' category. Unless you are super junior and go to TransStates as a CA qualified FO flying the same aircraft you did today, possibly forever,only now it is undercutting your comrades back at Envoy..,, or super senior about to flow and don't have a problem throwing the lit match in the gasoline and thrill at the pain of everyone left behind as it burns down. The rest of us are just screwed...