Originally Posted by
propjet38
I have been in the airline industry for 19 years currently flying an Airbus, and have seen the regional airlines become nothing more than a sad life version of high school. I have many friends that work for basically across the board from Mesa, Republic, Eagle, Compass, TSA, and Go Jet. I really think that most of the problem stems from that most of the pilots getting hired into the regionals don't have any formal education and bring that high school mentality into the industry. Go Jet..... well so people don't or say they don't like them but the truth is that in all honesty nobody knows why they don't, other than that is what they have been told. THINK FOR YOUR SELF. If you were not at TSA when the whole thing started move on with your life, because I can bet you really don't know the whole story. I am not defending but explaining that TSA was created and Eagle pilots hated TSA and for the most part STILL DO! I love the ALTER EAGLE stickers and then TSA stole that idea and made ALTER EGO JET stickers. But ALPA is really what screwed TSA over. REMEMBER GENTS HE WHO HAS THE MONEY MAKES THE RULES. Hulas had a business deal to make and he did, fact of life move on. There was a law suit against Go Jet by TSA and then the other way around, when it went to court the ruling was; Go Jet is not an alter ego airline, no picket line was crossed so pilot are not scabs (by the way most of the young pups out there throw around the word SCAB and don't know what it really means well...) and that it is a legal company. I know, I know... supporting Go Jet is bad. Really to me they are just another regional the same as as any one else. As for the badge thing really? I have mine on a lanyard sometimes and that thing is front wards and backwards and for the uniforms they look like all united express pilots, give me a break and go take up golfing or something.
I have to admit... there was a time when I would completely disagree with you on this... but in the large scope of things you are absoultely right. You can compare go-jets with just about any regional, or many other "national majors". 10-15 years ago people were making the same arguments about Southwest... taking food out of the mouths of legacy pilots by undercutting thier prices and creating a race to the bottom. In the end, in the world of deregulation, it is all the same... yes I just said Southwest is the same a Go-jets. For those of you who openly say you hate Go-jets but would happliy go to Southwest... you are a complete hypocrit if you are educated in the histroy of the airline industry. Should we all deny a Southwest pilot a j/s because a couple decades ago they went to a carrier that in the end brought the rest of our industry down? If you say you would rather work at target than Go-jets... then you should keep working at target until you can get a job at a legacy. But even then... pick carefully because if you pick the wrong one you may be hurting the people at the other airlines that have a better contract/QOL at the time of your hire and for years thereafter.