Originally Posted by
Itsajob
The current deal is presently and will be honored, but it should be changed. The seats in the back belong to the parent company and a 25+ year employee of that company shouldn’t be bumped by an employee of a subcontractor who was in diapers when the mainline employee started working. The routes are mainline routes that are farmed out to the regionals. Without mainline, that airplane owned by a regional would just be a static display. Seniority should be honored.
And without regionals that poor 25+ year mainline pilot wouldn’t get his / her fat paycheck.