Originally Posted by
DoSomePilotStuf
That’s exactly right. You can’t just demand something for nothing. It’s not going to happen. Especially with the whipsaw setup. Comparing XJT to a WO is like comparing apples to oranges. Until it is proven that the whipsaw can’t provide enough pilots to cover flying the whipsaw is what we will have. And under the whipsaw it’s dog eat dog. No one is getting something for nothing. All XJT ALPA is doing with this rhetoric is proving that when consolidation does eventually force itself on United XJT will not be part of the plan. Maybe they will “staple” our seniority list to the bottom of Commutair’s.
United's short sighted feeder/regional game plan is very, very simple and very, very outdated.
They are dead set on the whipsaw models with 8 or 9 feeders. The last few years they have been acquiring other airline's regional feed after they were kicked to the curb (TSA and Air Wisconsin from American) and now Gojet and Compass since they were kicked to the curb by Delta. It's no surprise that these "exclusive" United feeders have industry low pay and work rules.
United thinks it's easier to try and "claim" large and small work groups for their pilots and consolidate them into a hack peace meal plan of carrying passengers.
Problem is that 8 or 9 carriers is hell when an IROP hits, the quality of the operation is garbage (the way United likes it, cheap and poor quality), and it's wholly inefficient.
Problem for United is that once the dust settle with Compass (pilots likely folded into GoJet or TSA) they won't be able to acquire anymore cheap pilots from other carriers. All others are spoken for. I guess United is just hoping for another recession.
The word will eventually get out that United feeders are to be stayed away from and that Delta and American is the pace to go. You either get great pay and a well run airline (Delta) or you get a flow and good pay (American). United gives you neither. Their feeders should be at the very end of a pilot recruit's shortlist.