Originally Posted by
NineGturn
Never called you management. If you were management you wouldn't have time to be here....I accused you of working for a PR company because your statements in these forums are consistent with the interests of the Regional Airlines Association or with those of a large flight school.
A "PR company"? LOL what does that even mean?
Yeah, you got me when you "called me out". I'm just a RAA/flight school PR company poster pretending to be a pilot. Guilty as charged.
That's why I've spent years arguing for higher pay and benefits across the board and, of course, massively improved scope that would significantly reduce regional airline revenue streams.
That's also why I advocate for merciless, hyper competitive, devistatting, dream crushing responses from legacy airlines when the day comes that little punk insolent regional airlines try to go IndyAir II with larger planes on their own. I've argued constantly for tightening scope and doing away with things like the "separate certificate trick" that regionals use and profit from to skirt the edges of mainline scope clauses.
That's also why I'm against training bonds/contracts, MPL schemes, reduced minimums (for any flight school, private or Big Ed) as well as being against any kind of government slush fund money for flight schools/colleges and why I'm in favor of higher pay at regionals, full cancellation pay, more days off and better work rules.
If all that reduces the need for what regionals provide and results in more mainline jobs, that's A-OK with me too.
Meanwhile you've advocated against unions and seniority lists, and your only strategy for addressing the so called pilot shortage is to do nothing, even though you admit that if it truly gets to crisis proportions that will increase/guarantee MPL, reduced minimums and pave the way for the "need" for cabotage. Sounds a lot like what an A4A PR firm provocateur would say.
But maybe you really are a pilot. And maybe, one day, they'll finally bust those unions and you can finally get that US legacy widebody captain job that you clearly are qualified for but can't have because of those danged seniority lists.
Oh, and I almost forgot…you also said flying was easy and pilots are basically just button pushers and training/experience really isn't that important anyway. Sounds a lot like a pro-management PR firm (whatever that even is) to me.