Originally Posted by
The Chow
There is no incentive right now for the airlines to keep or treat anyone with any type of respect. They know if we leave we start at the bottom of someone else's list. So if we had a way where we couldn't knock someone else out of a job, but wouldn't get 1st pay all over, would that work? Now the way I would see this working is that you would still be at the bottom of the new company's pilot list for things such as bidding and non-rev bennies, but if you had 10 years in than thats where your pay would start.
Thoughts?
We're just too divided. The Comair group is divided, all the regional pilots are divided. Management has won. They've whipsawed us all against each other to where we give each other the finger as we taxi by. We complain that the other guys undercut us by working for peanuts. Everyone is mad at ALPA for "just helping the senior guys." I'd love to have a regional wide strike, but that would never be legalized as it would "criple the economy too much." Because we all know how important the airlines are to the US economy. They don't care about the people who actually make it happen. Us pilots still get paid too much anyway and need to take more cuts, to save our companies.
Until we can put bickering aside, not hate the other guys for undercutting us, and not be mad at the union, maybe we can take a stand. But I can't see that happening soon. We can't even agree on things on this forum.