Originally Posted by
gooddeal
Yet you have been employed as a pilot for how long.....? With that robust scope language in how many contracts? Again, within AAG the QX pilots have a concrete case for protection on the outsourcing of jobs. I'm curious to know what percentage (with 1% being minuscule chance to 100% meaning your currently interviewing anywhere) that you feel that a 737 job will disappear at AS and given to a third party based on scope language?
Do you even work for Alaska Airlines? If so, do you even know the details of the scope language in our current contract? Better yet, were you born yesterday?
45 RJs flying (by 2017) mid range runs that the 737s used to/can fly is not considered "job disappearance"? 30% of AAG's fleet could be RJs, that is if QX will get to do the flying, and only if they let the company jam a paycut up their a$$. How would you feel if you were a Horizon guy right now? More realistically speaking, Skywest will be doing the flying given the $hit ultimatum given to the QX pilot group by this air group. Corporate America at its finest! With nicer, bigger, longer range RJs coming online that are flown by pilots who are paid a fraction of main line pilots, do you think that management will stop because they are reasonable and ethical human beings with a soul? You are absolutely right, they do care about their investors and only their investors. Why? It's the hand that feeds them and the labor group is just that-hired hand.
The company keeps throwing turd carrots on a stick to this ignorant pilot group by promising growth and these pilots willingly eat them. They tell the pilot group that the RJs will feed the -800/-900ERs and that if the RJ routes grow in demand, they'll put the 737s on those routes. How's that working out to our advantage so far, genius? That's right.....we have no leg to stand on because we have NO scope that's worth a damn!