Originally Posted by
Meow1215
Try and imagine what your opinion of me means to me.
OO can organize or not. I don’t care, but until the OO pilot group stops riding the coat tails and starts contributing to the advancement of the profession that union pilots give everyday. I, and most pilots for that matter, will continue to have no respect and make OO the joke of the industry.
There will always be some people so pro-union that they make ridiculous statements like this. Everyone in management and any industry or company not unionized are the scum of the earth. Yadda yadda. I can't say what people might say behind my back, but I've found that to my face, most folks do have a lot of respect for OO. I don't jumpseat too often, so I don't speak with mainline pilots frequently, but I've even had a mainline pilot recommend to me that I stay at OO rather than move to a legacy, expressing a wish that he had not chosen to move on, which surprised me simply given the pay disparity. I'm sure that pay alone puts pilots like him in a small minority, but I've had many more pilots tell me that SkyWest has a reputation as a good place to be than pilots making negative statements like the quote above.
One can be proud of their organization without insisting everyone should wish to be part of it. Doing so makes them wish to be part of it even less. You, Sir, are the joke.