Originally Posted by
stickwiggler
I'll lecture any time I choose when you make jack ass rants and I could not care less what you are sick of hearing. Don't want to hear it? Then lecture your slick hairs, not me.
I applaud you voting yes, and even support your decision to denie the JSif it was as bad as you say.
I will say this in defense of the ASA pilot that you dealt with, If you were in our shoes and you'd had 3 bases yanked out from underneath you by Delta/ JA and you saw the way JA treats your company and in turns craps on ours, your nerves might be just a little frazzled as well. Just think about it.
I had a Skywest Jump seater the the other day. Snot nose FO who walked in the cockpit and TOLD me "I'm riding here or in the back, I'm not sure yet" Then he wanted to put a huge chart case in the cockpit. I told him if he rode up front that would be fine, but if he was going in the back, to take it with him. He sat in 1B. He told the FA that "he had to sit there, just in case" because he was a jumpseater. He again came to the cockpit and said, "I'm sitting in back but I'm going to leave my bag here"
I told him no, and he said he was sitting in the bulkhead and had no place to put it. I told him to check it like every other pilot does. The FA offered another seat, he declined "I have to sit here just in case". What a chode. Then I find out that he is asking people to move their feet so he can put his bag under their seat!!!! I sware I can't make this up!! I called him to the cockpit and in no uncertain terms, told him check your bag or get off, he was delaying my flight. I found out later that he took out his charts and collapsed the case and put stuff in 3 overhead bins. On top of this he spent the whole flight "explaining" the plane to the guy next to him and dogging ASA with comments like "we own them and they better shape up or we will take all their planes"
Just for a moment if you were in my seat, how would that have gone over with you? But guess what? He still went. Politics with the jumpseat is a NO GO. I wanted to not denie, but grab this little b%@!h of a man by the ear and throw him on the ramp. But, he went. Again, no politics with the jumpseat.
I spent 7 years in the Army as a Blackhawk pilot and have been at ASA for 10 years, I will lecture you anytime I want. I've earned it.
Stick
First of all, I still don't understand your overall hatred toward the SkyWest pilot group. No one I have EVER talked to in a SkyWest uniform is getting any enjoyment from "taking" anyone else's planes, just as you don't like flying some old Comair birds. But I'm willing to bet that if a plane pulls up to your gate, with ASA written on the side, but a CA tail number, you're still going to fly it. Don't insult my intelligence, and everyone else's on this forum by calling us scabwest.
Second, in reference to the bolded part of the quote, it is my understanding that JA has very little to do with the management of ASA. I believe that the same guys who ran ASA before, still are. Also you can hardly say that he craps on you, while treating us so great. Our pay is almost identical, with ASA perhaps getting just a bit more. They've also at least on three occasions aggresively pursued growth for ASA. You may not like how long it's taking the contract to get done, but you're far from gettting crapped on. I'm former Trans States, and I know what getting crapped on is like.
And third in reference, to you bashing slick haired young pilots at SkyWest, I only ask that you look in the mirror of your own pilot group. I believe ASA is hiring plenty of straight out of college 400 and 500 hour pilots. There are young pilots all over the regionals now, that all have different opinions on unions, and our industry as a whole. Don't try to pretend that ASA has 1,700 pilots with 7,000 hours or more, who've all been around the block twice.
Anyway, as I've said to you a couple times before, put your sword away, and stop bashing the SkyWest pilot group. Remember, in the not to distant future, we'll be on the same seniority list, and you'll have to fly with me, even if I'm young.