CMP is not perfect, but what carrier is?
Fellas, it is this kind of thinking that is killing us and the industry as a whole. The thrust of this silly statement is: My company (or that company) $ucks but every other one does too and there is nothing I can do about it, so I should just accept it.
Ridiculous. Spineless. Just what they want you to think and how they'd love for you to act--supine! Sickening
You can do something about it--don't go to these terrible outfits. Don't enable $h _ _ty managers like the thieves at Northwest to treat you like the dirt they think you are. No pilots means no airline, it's very simple. There will always be someone tempted to fly for less, just because it is a jet. Don't do it--you're hurting all of us and yourself down the road.
Now, the young man's original question was to go or not to go. Someone in a later post said it best. You can climb hard through the mud of Compass and while doing so, you are helping to erode Northwest from the bottom. Isn't this the place you want to (or are thinking of wanting to) be in the end? Think about it. They will be replacing the DC-9 with the E-175 or whatever and you'll be flying it. There will be no 9 for you to go to. You'll have very limited flowup agreements because the Northwest MEC will be trying to protect their current guys with the flowdown agreement so they can start eroding their own jobs so they can get back to living on a 320. It is a vicious circle over there. You'll be stuck on the backside of the power curve and never moving. Go fly at a good corporate gig and then come back at it. Unless you are comfortable living at home or flying 100 hours a month, it isn't fun flying for a regional carrier. The cities bite and the flight attendants don't make it worth it. Oh, and the public couldn't care less about how hard or glamorous you think your job is.
Don't even get me started on what Northwest will look like when they merge with Delta. It's going to happen boys. Other than fleet compatibility issues, that idea likely has legs and when it does, that _ss of a CEO they have at Compass will sell the thing off for scrap in order to make a bunch of cash, make himself look like a hero, become the CEO of NWA and then eventually parlay that into a CO-CEO of the merged company to make even more money as the eventual winner. How many regional carriers would a merged NWA-DAL need? Not as many as they have right now. Think it can't happen? Ask any of the MidAtlantic guys what they think of him. How do you think he got to Northwest in the first place? He successfully steered USAir into the tank, sold off their parts, and then presto, CFO of Northwest, CEO of Compass and where next? Follow the money boys.
So, the answer to the question is stay away from a sinking ship.
P.S.--I have no axe to grind on NWA, I just think they (management) don't deserve two $hi_s worth of anyone's blood, sweat, and tears. Complete idiots who deserve nothing other than a swift kick in the nads and then another one when they're down. I have an intense loathing of them is all. They've ruined a once fine company and I'm sure the young man's father is none too happy about.
WM
(Pontificator)