Originally Posted by
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Agreed, which is why my original post specifically stated I can understand their willingness and harbor no ill will. This reply was specifically to a claim that EV pilots holding the line is somehow a grandiose and meaningless gesture.
A scenario where EV guts their CBA and somehow gets below C5, resulting in C5 being shuttered would set the entire profession back. This isn’t just about regionals, the cost gap was closing to the point that whipsaws and outsourcing were losing their appeal, consolidation and even mild insourcing was happening. That was important to every pilot from student to 777 CA.
Here again I will reiterate that I can understand the impossible dilemma laid at senior EV pilots feet, but we shouldn’t lose perspective of the context and far reaching scale of such decisions.
Lets say XJT comes down to right above or even to match commutair, how does that drag down the industry as a whole when Mesa, commutair, air Wisconsin, Gojet and the former trans states are already on that level. It’s been one thing to lower the standard it’s entirely different to match the brand average.