Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
Specific reasons why:
1. Management isn't going to agree to it. They like the whipsaw and flexibility. They hold the keys to a merger.
2. The mainline group isn't going to take concessions to get you on board. Nor should they.
3. ALPA will fight you on it. Reference the showdown at the 2000 ALPA BOD meeting. (Were you even born yet?)
4. It's a windfall for the regional, with little in return for the mainline. Difficult to negotiate a deal there.
5. The senior pilots at the regional won't accept a staple. The junior pilots at the mainline won't accept an SLI.
I could go on...
1. Management isn't going to agree to it. They like the whipsaw and flexibility. They hold the keys to a merger.
The airline industry is only one crash away from this paradigm shift. Once the public realizes that management is hiring highly inexperienced pilots to fly the public to save money, there's no number of airline name changes that will save them.
2. The mainline group isn't going to take concessions to get you on board. Nor should they.
Isn't the whole point that Horizon is flying Alaska's route? Also I have no interest in going to Alaska--especially where I'm at now.
3. ALPA will fight you on it. Reference the showdown at the 2000 ALPA BOD meeting. (Were you even born yet?)
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t's now 2021 and we're now starting to see the fruits of these "regional airlines". I think in retrospect B-scale wages would have been smarter, but I could be wrong.
4. It's a windfall for the regional, with little in return for the mainline. Difficult to negotiate a deal there.
There's actually a huge return for the "mainline" pilots.
5. The senior pilots at the regional won't accept a staple. The junior pilots at the mainline won't accept an SLI.
Virgin was technically a regional airline and they got an SLI? If junior pilots could flow back to the "regional" instead of being furloughed they'd accept it.