So you guys realize that we lost our 69 jets at Continental because of this:

The CAL CEO realized that we are a more expensive labor group (we have a good contract, our second year FOs make a liveable wage). He realized that he could find pilots that would fly the same exact ERJ145 and CRJ200 for less. CAL asked XJT to lower their rates (result: paycuts for pilots) and we said no. XJT isn't exactly the kind of pilot group that will do anything for the dangling carrot.

So, CAL found pilots that would do our job for less. It happened to be CHQ. It could have been TSA. It could have been any other bottom feeder.

So don't look at the big picture with blinders on guys. If Continental couldn't have found other crew members that would do our already low paying job for less, then we may still be flying those aircraft. But, they did. How come? Because folks go to work for the underbidding companies.

Another way to look at it. United and American are able to underbid Continental on 50 seat routes because United and American found TSA to fly those routes for rock bottom costs. That's what put the pressure on Continental to ask XJT to take cuts.

I fully understand this is capitalism, and the passenger is fully benefiting. Who is not benefiting? The american worker, who is underbidding and throwing the pilots at the next gate over under the bus.

This really is the feeling of the majority of RJ pilots in the US. There are a handful of guys on this thread that don't think that way. Maybe they think through HK vision. I don't know. It's shirley something to think about. And don't call me shirley.