Originally Posted by
Blkflyer
I could not agree with you more However everyone situation is different and so how can you tell the kid who is going to get a job to start paying back the student loans, car loans credit card ect ect When you can figure out a way to tell KEY Bank or Sallie Mae I dont have your money cause I just turned down a job ... well you get my point I have said it before and ill say it again, we ie Pilots are our worst enemy we talk solidarity but really we dont have any,, its all about Me I who cares about the other person.. ok rant over
couldn't agree more. we have guys from some of the carriers that just went under applying at pinnacle because we are one of the few regionals still hiring, and they can upgrade to captain fairly quickly here and hopefully be able to feed their families again, save their house, and wait out the downturn and then hopefully move back up to the level they were at when they lost their jobs.
i have said this before. people coming here doesn't do anything. all of this is all played out already and it is all based on time. we wont get a contract till either the mediator releases us, or till delta/nwa tells management to get us a contract. that will be it. we have been understaffed for years, and nothing has changed. and with the down turn of the industry no one is leaving so they aren't having a hard time staffing right now. so this has proven that the airline doesn't care about staffing issues. whether people come or not they don't care. they just pay the penalites and move on, as we have seen. they tried once by trying to unilaterally bump up the fo pay. we told them no and they said "whatever", and we are still in the same spot.
the only thing that will get us a contract is 30 days and 30 seconds.