Originally Posted by bedrock

The legitimate argument is that they are contractors, NOT mainline. Mainline is making the record profits, not the contractors. The regionals have very little room to do much under this model, that is why it is up to us, the pilots, to force change of that model. At ExpressJet, the pilots did stand up in the face of the race to the bottom and voted against pilots subsidizing a broken model and an inadequate management team. This act forced Skywest (who owns us) to start looking for other ways to save money, namely by increasing efficiency and by appointing better managers. Our refusal to cave, got the old mgmt fired! So change can happen.