Originally Posted by
airlinepilot50
I get it that you have a dislike for pilots that complain. It’s best to keep it to yourself and not give ammunition to the likes of United. It’s about standing together collectively as a pilot union. You and even I do not know every pilots situation that causes them to complain, call in sick, be different, and not be liked by others. But, we know that they are responsible for flying your family and United’s passengers. United should be supportive of their non-mainline pilots if they honestly cared about safety and customer service.
I’m just gonna throw this out there... You say to stand united as a pilots union. I want to put something in perspective.
The reason new hires come to a regional, any regional, is to build time and move on. New hires coming to XJT right now are 95%+ of the opinion that the company is growing, that they are in on the front end of a hiring wave and that growth will lead to faster upgrades and that we will be hired at the majors after a few thousand hours at XJT.
The only way we are on the front end of a wave is if hiring continues. When union supporters or union leaders come on here and tell potential recruits how bad it is and how they should not come here, it works against why we are here to begin with. When you make that decision, it is YOU who is dividing the pilot group.
We are all prepared to make $3 per hour less than other regional pilots and have a rolled day off here and there. We have the mentality that we are here to make a few sacrifices and move on to better QOL down the road.
Now, we are all on board with having better QOL during our short time at XJT. We are fully supportive of the senior pilot group and their quest for better QOL, to a point. When you rant and rave about how terrible the company is and how horrible management is in an effort to discourage pilots from coming here, you lose our support. PERIOD
We all know pilots who are out flying the line not only at XJT but at other regionals as well. Those on here complaining are definitely the minority. By a very wide margin.
So please, wear your lanyards, be angry, get mad and complain standing around in the crew room, whatever. But understand trying to make a public spectacle about how bad things are at XJT and how everyone hates it here is not only false, it is divisive. You are the ones creating the divide.