Originally Posted by
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I haven't seen your language. IF they tried to move an aircraft off the property how many pilots would have to go with it?
Well that's the thing.... I seriously doubt that will ever happen or even get to that point. I seriously believe that management there looks forward to chap 11. They could get rid of the 145s and the delta contract, have an all 170 fleet liked they planned and IF this contract passes they can get some relief on the pilot pay( it seriously could be just a marketing ploy to get pilots to go there in mass then pull a stick an move). Alot of outsiders don't realize how well RAH does even when things are bad. Sure they have lost some profit but they are still very much making money with the 170s. The fleet they have now and the pilots they have now are MORE than enough to staff all the 170 minus the 145s and Q400s..... They do not need to grow, they don't need more business. They are very much sustainable with just the 170 operation. They want to downsize. They make much more money that way and Bedford keeps the model he pretty much created in this new pilot shortage. RAH Management maybe as$&@"'s but they are not stupid. I wouldn't even be surprised that if they do go to chap 11 they won't already have the gameplay all ready to go for the judge waiting for his blessing as they play a round of golf.... But yes... If the situation is that they lease aircraft to envoy/Piedmont, whoever the RAH pilots will do the flying. it won't ever happen tho. Even if they sale the planes to anyone (which they wouldn't) the union has a vested interest and a say about it. In a nutshell that's what the contract says. Now us getting the newer 145s from Shuttle America could def be a possibility in a sale transaction to AA. That would be more likely, but I doubt Delta would let that happen or buy them for themselves( even tho they would never use them, but to keep AA from getting them I could see them doing something like that.) That's why pilots are leaving. We are not pawns to be treated like crap, paid poorly, worked hard and unappreciated. QOL trumps everything. No matter what you do, the union does they will win. They do not see you as a human being. Just a pawn to make them money. I don't like starting rumors or saying anything for sure. Because I don't know anything. None of us do. That's just my two cents. Enough posting today. Sorry guys.