Originally Posted by
TurbineTime
Sorry, but I don't see it your way. As long as the regionals exist, mainline can shuffle flying from one to the next, and older less efficient aircraft are being retired; people will move from one place to the other. I can see people from commutair, Mesa, ExpressJet, Gojet just to name a few moving to a higher paying job. The money will bring people from others as well, those who have bills to pay and to whom that $9000 you seem to brush off means economic stability. It will happen.
Bryan, that $9000 simply offsets the increase in health care premiums.
No matter, it appears Republic will return to the bargaining table after it is decided it will not be presented (final outcome) or the pilots vote it down.
A source within the Republic pilot ranks suggested there were tentative indications this week Republic might be willing to return. The source said at least one Republic executive, Ryan Willman, who visited pilot bases in recent days, was asking what might need to be changed in the airline's last best and final offer to get pilots to vote 'yes.'