Absolutely not. I am just a pilot that makes his paycheck like everyone else. I am, however, not blinded by unrealistic expectations.

Here are the questions that everyone should be asking: Is Envoy better off with this contract than they would have been with the first one? Are the regional airlines as a whole better for all of this? Are the relations between the pilots of the different airlines worse now? Is there any sort of solidarity at all now? Who was the winner in all of this?

All this has done is to tear the groups apart even more. You have to recognize this. With the Envoy pilots attacking the other regional pilots, why would they stand together? All this is doing is creating barriers that will hurt the collective labor as a whole. The B scale contract will create further animosity inside of Envoy. One guy will have one set of flow rules and pay scales (past the 12/4), while the guy sitting next to him will have something completely different. All that is happening is that we are being separated. The large "American Eagle" is gone, and several smaller pawns have been left in it's place. This is great for management, as pawns can be sacrificed to control the others - especially when the pawns all hate each other.

It is not the pilots at Envoys fault that this happened, but they did make it worse...and are continuing to make it worse every day. They attack other pilots for doing the exact thing that they are doing now - getting the best deal that they could and keeping their families fed.

Every negative comment from one pilot towards another is another win for airline management.