Originally Posted by
Koolaidman
So are you saying that regionals are the reason the legacies took a huge pay cut and not bankruptcy?
If you want to use weight for measurement of pay, fine. Second year Southwest or American MD-80 guys makes what compared to what EOS second year FO makes? That is the point I am trying to make. It is tough to get pay up when you will fly a 757 for X amount while American is trying to get back to what they had. I don't see why that is so difficult to understand? If you want to use the aircraft's weight for a measurement of pay, we can do that too. Next post when I get bored.
Let's see if we can make this a little more simple for you. An airline with 4 airplanes will have zero impact on bargaining for top tier airlines. As I said, supplemental carriers have always been lower than legacies and nationals, yet they never seemed to affect the bargaining since deregulation. The same will be said of MaxJEt and EOS.
Question for you Koolaid-if JetBlue called you up today, would you go work for them? If one of the legacies, with their deflated rates called you up, would you go work for them? My guess is yes you would. So are you not in fact also lowering the bar going to work for carriers that now have subpar rates compared with what they have historically been?
The regionals with the numbers of aircraft that now operate do affect bottom pay for the legacies. The regionals now do what DC9s, 727s, BAC 1-11s, and 737s did during the mid 80s. Compare your pay now to what a captain on one of those was making then.
So who has the bigger impact on legacies wages, 4 aircraft from EOS or a thousand RJs flying around?