Originally Posted by
Ellen
Executive leaders across the country are cheating and lying their way to riches at the expense of employees and shareholders. To see that MESA is getting what it deserves, should send a smoke flare to other airlines . . .
Definitely. However, the way the regionals have been acting doesn't bother me the most. After all, to at least a slight majority of regional pilots, the regionals are simply a stepping stone, and while regionals aren't the most aged establishment in the airline industry, it's hard to argue that there were no bottom feeders in past days.
What bothers me the most is the seeming glee that the Legacy and Major airline Boards are taking in imitating not only the increasingly cutthroat non-aviation world, but stooping down to the levels of regionals to modify and circumvent ALL employee contracts, negotiate underhanded deals with officials, and maintain less than ethical everyday relationships with their employees.
It quite literally is a change from "pay them so they'll want to stay" to "pay them just enough not to leave".
And all this during times of unprecedented global and US aviation growth.