Originally Posted by
MD80driver2day
Tyler and all.... I'm curious. What kind of relationship did you envision we would have during contract negotiations? You say you're senior... So you were well informed during the IBT roadshows that if we went down this path it was going to get ugly....and they were right.
It befuddles me when I read the comments on here. W T F did you expect?? Go ask the Alaska guys what life was like during their prolonged negotiations and arbitrator imposed pay cuts. Go do a little research and take a pilot contract 101 class. Nothing is happening on this property that hasn't happened elsewhere.
Yes, a half dozen senior guys have left. I have plenty of people above me and I've barely moved in the last 2 years.
You can't compare Allegiant to Jetblue IQuit? Plenty of Jetbluers would disagree. We've even had a few leave JB to come here in the past year.
Life sucks here right now for most. I'm not saying otherwise.... I'm just saying that if you didn't expect this course of action when we voted in the IBT, then you're not very aware of your industry.
Honestly, I expected this...I knew it would get bad before it would get better. While life does suck here now, the reason I'm trying to get out is that I'm convinced (as are a lot of guys here) that when we finally get a contract it's not going to fix the issues. The operation and maintenance are in shambles. I know no airline is perfect, but show me another airline that takes its operation seriously that has the MX issues we do at the rate we do. It's amazing to many of us that FAA has let this go on, while we may not technically break any regs, at what point is enough enough?? I'd probably be willing to stay and fight for this contract if I wasn't worried about what's gonna fail on the 80 today. So for me at least, it's the maintenance (or lack there of) and an embarrassment of an operation that has me trying so hard to punch out. And no contract, no matter how good, is going to fix that. Just new management and a new mindset from the top down. And sadly I just don't see that happening here.