Originally Posted by
sigep_nm
So let me get this straight, you are willing to come and fly a 76 aircraft? Or is it you just want to fly what you scoped out? I think I heard the same argument about the 50 seaters as well....And what is a mainline carrier anymore with the serpant steinland running it anymore? What would first year pay at mainline be with the 76 seaters be? like 10 bucks an hour....
Yup, I most certainly would fly a 76 seat aircraft. They belong at mainline, and never have belonged at a regional. An airplane is an airplane. You don't see the guys at NetJets whining about their Citation Excel being too small. And they just recently got a raise. I'm proud of the CAL group for keeping their jet scope at 50 seats. I didn't give NWA scope up, that was done before I joined NWA. And I never flew anything larger than 50 seats at my regional, that's all we had.
The current contract at NWA is the same as many other airlines. A concessionary contract which is result of airlines using bankruptcy to strip labor unions of their wages. Life at NWA is pretty good, leaps and bounds better then the regional I was at. It stands to get a lot better.
So to sum it up, you're darn right I would fly a 76 seat jet at NWA The DC9-30 isn't the far off, and it pays way better than any 76 seat jet at a regional.