Originally Posted by 757Driver
So you have no plans to step up to a major if offered a job? I doubt that very much. The Major jobs will always be out there as people will always have to retire.
The short-sightedness of yours and that idiot sarcastic are amazing. I'd be willing to bet you'd jump at a job in the big leagues. I never aspired to work for peanuts in some cramped RJ for the rest of my career. I'd have walked away from the job if that's as far as I got.
I'm here at the majors and have every right to defend what I've earned even if it means sarcastic loses his commuter job.
I completely support the Delta & NWA Professional Aviators as they're fellow Pilots who deserve nothing less than that.
Shame on all you opportunists who only wonder "what's in it for me". A healthy career with a top-notch contract awaits you if you only had the gonads to look beyond the glareshield of your Embraer.
Sure I would jump at a chance to fly for Alaska Air, the rest I am not so sure about. I don't make the news I just make my opinions as I see it. Way back in 1997 a former employer at a corporate/charter company told me that the legacy airlines were going to cave in due to top heavy non-competitive pay scales. He went on to give details about how the downfall would come and what the results would be. Back then there was no way I would have believed him, but darn if he wasn't right on the mark. The day of the "top notch" contracts are over. The airline pilot is sinking to the bottom rungs of status and pay. I can't help it. It isn't my fault. If Delta strikes and the company chooses chapter 7 over concessions then it is over for everyone. Who will risk the same fate? APLA management might as well clean out the safe and move to Mexico.
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