Originally Posted by
Airsupport
so management wrote us a dirty letter. actually the letter was intended for all the workers at pinnacle so they would know that the pilots are about to cause the company to go belly up. "Our pilots where asking for Express Jet rates plus 3%, which isn't competitive and led directly to Express Jet having 60 planes pulled by Continental".
that's exactly what the Colgan wrote in one of their anti-ALPA propaganda newsletters. direct quote:
"We understand that the MEC at ExpressJet has communicated with our pilots boasting about their wages and success of ALPA representation. What they did not tell you is that
due to the high costs incurred by ExpressJet for those wages, Continental decided to take away 69 airplanes of flying from ExpressJet and give it to Chautauqua, a non-ALPA carrier which had much more reasonable costs. They also did not tell you that another high cost ALPA carrier, Atlantic Coast (which later became Independence Air), went out of business and all of its pilots were furloughed. Nor did they tell you that Air Wisonsin, another high cost carrier, lost its business at United to Mesa, a low-cost carrier."
I guess we do work for the same company after all!
