Originally Posted by
flyprdu
A United pilot would understand that there are costs to running an airline. A United pilot would understand that those costs shouldn't come out of the pilot's share.
An Alaska pilot would toe the company line and expect any sort of expenses to be a deterrence to "growth" or cost pilots money in their "next" contract. Even though Alaska is back to industry-leading profit margins.
Rickair is undoubtedly an Alaska Air pilot.
Alaska error group has always played their work groups against one another. They find it particularly amusing that they can play one workgroup against itself: pilots. having been at QX in 2016 I can tell you they cranked the fear factor to 11 and basically told us "Eat the costs or else" when they wanted us to take pay cuts to get more aircraft. It's a classic stockholm syndrome diagnosis.