Originally Posted by Thedude86

Whipsaw has been around since the beginning of the commuter and regional airlines, and it will continue to exist until regionals cease to exist... if they ever do. AAG would have easily shutdown or downsized PSA if they wanted to. To think they wouldn’t is nonsense. Just like they will do with Piedmont now if they don’t play ball. That, or a merge or they’ll just increase the bonuses. Piedmont will not get more than what’s already offered.

You guys are thinking with a pilot mindset and not a business mindset. Pilots don’t run airlines. Management does. They’re goal is to run as cheaply as possible and to not let one contractor start calling the shots and show the others that they don’t have to take the first offer. We’re wholly owneds for crying out loud. AAG makes more money off of us than anyone else since they keep all the profits. So why do you think they keep the others around? To keep costs low. They’ll shift flying around as they please if someone starts getting out of line.

I’ll agree that I don’t think you’ll be taking concessions this time around. But that doesn’t mean you have “leverage”. We have leverage in the sense that the current pilot market demands higher pay. The “leverage” you guys are referring to is that we don’t have to accept management’s first offer, their threats, or what they already calculated and budgeted for what they’re willing to give us. So again, prove the PSA backstabbers wrong. If you guys can’t get Endeavor rates, and/or match us but with a flow increase and QOL improvements then it’s just proof you’ve been blaming PSA with nothing to back up your claims for the last 6 years.