Originally Posted by
rightseat
We should all congratulate the entire RAH pilot group for holding the line and living with a deplorable contract in an attempt to make life better for the entire pilot community. Stay the course RAH pilots! Better things are in front of all us if you do. It is your pain, but all of us will gain. We each owe the RAH pilot group a salute in the airport for not accepting that POS contract last year (unlike other pilot groups that shall go unmentioned).
If RAH goes under, is forced to sell/merge, or finally yield to an industry leading contract, the pain will have been worth it. Under any scenario the industry is better off for your sacrifice. You all are taking a political/social media beating from other RAH employee groups for not caving. We all need to support RAH pilots!!!
S-T-F-U! This isn't some stupid pee-wee football league. Salute in the airport? You have got to be freakin' kidding me.
Grow up.
Nobody gains anything anywhere in the Regional industry. Nobody "stands up" for anything either. The Regional economics don't work that way. This whole "holding the line" crap is what makes so many Regional pilots chase that white rabbit down a dark hole they should never have gone down.
Republic's problems are due to Bryan Bedford. Period. Even had Republic pilots voted in that contract last year they would still be in this same position. I bring up examples from airline history quite often because we have to learn from them. Pan-Am pilots voted in concession after concession and it still didn't save their airline. They were doomed after decades worth of mis-management, a bloated and over extended fleet, and a very poorly done buyout of National airlines.
See the parallels with Republic? There is nothing the Republic pilots could have done to save their airline. That responsibility lies solely at the feet of Bedford and his talking head cronies. Unfortunately in this country there is NO accountability for ruining businesses so Bedford will come out of this just fine. It will be the labor groups scrambling for higher ground as the tidal wave moves in.
There is nothing pretty about that. And it won't help any other Regional in any way, shape, or form. You need to take it down a couple of notches. You are way in over your head and have NO idea how airlines operate or how things like this work. If you did you wouldn't have made such a stupid and gleeful post "thanking" Republic pilots for "holding the line". I just threw up in my mouth.
God Bless.