Originally Posted by
TallFlyer
Or just make a Group Zero.
And I suspect you’re not wrong about the ancillary costs, but what we’re seeing is fundamentally about the idea that money is not the motivator for pilots, Seniority is, in particular Seniority on a list they see being on the rest of their career.
In the end, if they want to keep meat in the seats in the pointy end, they (management) has to figure out how to meet that demand.
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Are you referring to the WO regionals as ‘the pointy end’? If so, I think you misunderstand why WOs exist. They exist to provide CHEAPER feed for AAG, not to provide PILOTS for mainline. As long as it is economically advantageous to AAG, there will be WOs, but the issue really isn’t between EITHER operating a WO or having NO regional feed for mainline. There will be WOs as long as it is more advantageous than subcontracting out the feed to Republic, Skywest, and Mesa.
Mainline has no shortage of acceptable applicants from other sources - including Republic, Skywest, and Mesa, the military, the ULCCs, the 135 world, etc.
We are talking management here. The only loyalty is to the bottom line.