Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
Doesn’t really matter. Its going to pass. We are replacing 200-300 50 and 70 seat RJs with mainline planes. We can’t hire pilots fast enough. Adding a few 76 seaters is nothing in my opinion. Certainly not anything that affect my job or yours. I’m not putting off contractual improvement because instead of having 153 76 seaters we have 180 but we have 300 less other RJ’s. A great trade off in my opinion and not really worth voting down the entire agreement.
I’m not going to give up actual gains because of some dogma about “holding the line” when we will probably hire 10,000 pilots in the next 5 years.
Allowing 50 seaters was once "no big deal"
Then the 50 seaters propped the door open for the 70 seaters, and then the same for the 76 seaters.
Originally Posted by
TFAYD
ALPA has gone on record before saying that there is value in feed etc.
ALPA realized long ago that they make more money for less effort by keeping the regionals around, which is why ALPA just helped AA save their wholly owned carriers instead of taking this opportunity to kill the regional industry once and for all.