Originally Posted by
baseball
nope....I am advocating for the INDUSTRY, iE regional industry, not just one pilot group, but their actual, and legitimate craft and class to negotiate for themselves. Not regional carrier 1, or regional carrier 5. Just the regional airline pilots association. Whomever wants to be a part of that powerful lobby. After all, the regional industry accounts for 52% of commercial flying today.
The other 48% of the scraps that are left over currently goes to mainline carriers. It's messed up!
No one told the mainline pilots that their "tranche of flying" was going to go from 85% to 48%. Maybe a little truth in advertising would be in order. Time to take back our "tranche"
Heck, I get it. the regional s have been doing great at whittling away our flying while building up their industry and on our backs and with our dues money. I totally get it. I wouldn't want that gravy train to stop either.
we make 1/3rd to 1/5th of what a mainline pilot makes under worse working conditions, that hardly qualifies as a "gravy train". Most of us would like to see the flying return if it meant we'd have a position there as well. Everyone is just trying to survive and make the best of a bad situation and hopefully not for an inordinate ammount of time.
I personally think the 50/70/76 seat could return to mainline and pilots would have an extended probation period to vet for personality/airmanship defects and perhaps 3 yrs service before moving to the general fleet. Pay them 30 percent more than they make now and reduce costs through redundancy in OCC and such.
Or alternatively, a "regional airline pilots association", like you suggested.