Originally Posted by
STR8NLVL
You missed my point Saab. I have never, and will never accuse any regional of stealing mainline routes, which is why I used quotes. I totally agree that the blame for the current state of regionals lies completely in the laps of mainline MEC's for giving up their scope. But, regional guys at XJT, CHQ, SKW, etc have no business looking down their noses at Colgan or anyone else and saying that people there shouldn't have taken those jobs because it lowers industry standards when the same could be said for us.
Given where we're at now, the only real answer to improve wages and qol is for the MEC's at the union shops to hang tough in their negotiations and for the non-union shops to get a clue and organize. It's time we demand better and not settle for anything less than we deserve!
Exactly. I guess if you really look at it the other way, everyone that has taken a job flying RJs at regional pay have done the most harm to the industry compared to us flying props and keeping our flying truly regional. If no one would have taken the RJ jobs at these wonderful companies, then the mainlines would have been force to do the flying at mainline wages. So in reality who do you think has hurt the industry more?????? I don't think is us at Colgan.