Originally Posted by
Nevets
Two out three of those are not out of business. But I know you count air Wisconsin as also out of business. I guess you live in a world where facts don't matter and you make things up to suit your failed argument.
I get it. You don't want to fight for better because you are scared your airline will seize to exist. So you would rather roll over and take your crumbs. My best advice for pilots is to work on having a viable back up plan. This way you can make decisions based on your convictions rather than on emotion.
They are a fraction a what they were, and so is left? The expensive labor senior guys, that equates to higher cost and no real new flying, as can be seen at expressjet and envoy. That is reality but hey I'm sure your precious ALPA will be there when the ship sinks, just like they were for comair guys. To have a backup plan generally you have to have excess funds, many people at regionals don't have that.
Your and most of expressjet mentality of riding it into the ground, "I'll be in mainline before this place goes under" mentality is dangerous to people that don't have a back up and no other source of income.
My opinion, which you obviously ignore, is that our hourly rate is better than most, where we can improve on is QOL, most of which can be improved by more staffing, which this TA can address. Going after major gains hourly is not likely since our rates are high as is, this may seem like grumbs to you, but it's better than being out of a job 5 years from now. Skywest too big and too successful to fail you'll say, and I'll say again, how many of those are no longer with us or a shadow at best of what they were? Expressjet/AsA/envoy used to be the place to be, how's your intake nowdays? Get a life away from the Skywest thread nevets, your
Agenda is sad and pathetic. Have you looked at hourly rates? Besides AWAC 200s we beat 90% of other regionals, can't raise the bar when we are the bar