Originally Posted by Kellwolf

As a former 9E guy, my knee jerk reaction is "What's the catch?" Could just be the 7 years of a beatdown I took there between contract negotiations, a failed TA that would have hosed every junior guy on property, a double merger and a bankruptcy, though. I hear it's better there now, but I see that wage and I immediately wanna start digging into the contract language on the work rules to find the loopholes. Maybe it's better, though.

One thing you can't argue with is our NC should take that to the table (if it passes) and say "A REGIONAL airline is now paying their FOs the equivalent of what we're paying. How are we going to attract quality talent going forward if we can't even compete with that? Oh, and their healthcare is better." I don't know if it actually is, but come on? How could it be worse. It was certainly better when I was there compared to what we have now. I remember complaining when I had to pay a $200 deductible. What's an extra $1100 per family member?

The longer this drags out, the more of a nightmare summer 2018 is gonna be staffing wise. And I'm not sure "It's ATC's fault" is going to work again two summers in a row.....