Originally Posted by
KnockKnock
Biz, before this goes any further, understand I have not once said any VX pilot is "bottom of the barrel, regional scum, punks" or any of the other names that are being thrown around on here. I'm also not criticizing VX pilots. If you go back and read this thread from page one, I'm responding to the few posters that resort to calling the AS pilots clowns, spineless and weak. I think that it's quite hypocritical to throw around garbage like that when, no matter how you slice it, you and all other VX pilots accepted less in a number of areas, in order to work there. One poster said he accepted less because his QOL was "in another Universe" another poster said he accepted less because he was having fun at work and now you're saying you accepted less because there was a promise of more later. Now please understand, I'm not judging you or any others for your decisions. This has nothing to do with thinking any less of you or VX in general. My point is solely that you disqualify yourself from telling anyone else they are weak or spineless for accepting less when you yourself have accepted less. Neither pilot group has the moral high ground in this whole thing. Both groups have overlooked sub par language in order to maintain their perceived QOL or whatever other motivating factors drove them to do so. With that said, neither group can rightfully say the other is weak or spineless. So as I said earlier in this thread, do we continue to call each other weak or do we fight for better, TOGETHER???
You keep talking about that we were flying for "less," but that depends on what you define as "more."
Our quality of life was great. No shows before 7am. 16-18 days off per month; even the lowest line holder could expect that. By and large, front line employees would go the extra mile for each other and the guests. We laughed together, we partied together. We built an airline from nothing. The future was undiscovered- and that was exciting.
So you keep talking about less, but it didn't feel that way at all. The airline was on the upswing and we were growing, right up until the majority-stake investors sold all of us out. (Not Branson)
If anyone is calling AS pilots weak, it's because there's this vibe of resignation around the whole airline. The union MEC has a revolving door with management.
Oh well. Management has been eroding quality of life for the last 5 years.
What can you do? It's disturbing. It's not that we're trying to name call- we want to wake you guys up and help you realize that our combined futures, left unchanged, look bleak as hell. And we want to change it. Help us.