Originally Posted by bored

Wow, this is all sounding eerily familiar. Between 2001-2004 Mesaba pilots dealt with 9/11, multiple rounds of furloughs, BigSky, a shrinking fleet, a 30 day cooling off period and being shut down for 48 hours after the strike deadline. What's my point? The vast majority of the contract was negotiated and signed in those 48 hours the company was on "virtual strike."

Throughout that entire time span of negotiations Mesaba pilots helped turn in great ontime performance, a continued top notch safety environment and showed up to work so as not to cause any sort of illegal job action suspicions. Bottom line is that we took the high road. It paid off in a certain way, but at the end of the day the company wasn't going to do their part in getting a TA until THEY HAD TO. And rightfully so... if I didn't have to settle and give everyone raises and increase my costs possibly hurting my profits and bonusses... why would I until I absolutely had to? It's a game and it's not unique to Pinnacle. It's hard not to, but you can't take it personally. It's apart of the way the game is played. It's definitely hard to watch other airlines grow at your expense, it too is apart of the game.

As for the ontime performance... that's awesome. But let's be fair with all the claims of 2nd best in the nation amongst all airlines. You're 2nd bed amongst all the airlines that report their status. There are still a lot of airlines that don't report, who do a great job.