Originally Posted by
TrevorW
...As a result of the American flying, TSA is flying with a scope clause in place that doesn't allow them to fly anything larger than 50 seats. When United approached TSA with the offer to fly 70 seaters (ERJ-170 or CRJ-700) TSA was bound by the scope clause and was unable without starting a new airline. GoJet was founded and the TSA pilots were offered the flying 3 times and a single seniority list, they rejected this offer 3 times...
TSA could have operated the new GoJet ticket like CHQ/Shuttle/Republic, but instead they decided to completely separate the two groups and "invited" (read threatened jobs) some of the staff at TSA in order to get GoJet off the ground. It isn't the same as the Eagle/American farming out some of their flying to a company that would fly cheaper. Trans States deliberately sidestepped the union and formed a new company, while cherry picking from the TSA pilot group. Some of the pilots went over voluntarily, and they are hated by some TSA pilots, but what some people are remiss to admit is that TSA would have made life very hard on some of the people that went over to GoJets, if they would not have "helped out" the new certificate. Eventually it will all clear out, but for now the wounds are still fresh, and GoJets is still new so management still has a stranglehold on their QOL, pay etc. It probably isn't a good first choice but if you live in STL and have multiple failures/violations and low time they might be right up your alley.
