Originally Posted by
kalyx522
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!
The stupid thing about that quote is that the whole CHQ thing with CO had nothing to do with money, but instead had everything to do with taking power away from XJT. And even though CHQ is non-ALPA, they are still represented by a union, the Teamster's IINM. As for ACA, they went out of business because MANAGEMENT stupidly tried to go head-to-head with United with sky-high CASM RJ's. And Air Whiskey's pay and work rules are still the envy of many of us.
It's funny how the clowns who run these airlines will be so quick to say how they need to give millions in bonuses to "retain talent". Yet they don't see the same correlation of paying above poverty level when recruiting "talent" in the cockpit.
(Deep breath)
(Steps down off soapbox)