Originally Posted by
DashDriverYV
You say you are there just to get you upgrade, some PIC time and move onto the next step, a Major. The problem is that your company, and mine, like all regionals, have cut the throats of the Majors. There won't be a job left to have with them. In fact the only thing regional about your company, is its name. You fly coast to coast on mainline routes working for slave wages for a shot at the dream. Every E-170 and CRJ-700 replaces what should be an A-320 or 737. Blame who you want but all that need to happen is the Pilots at the majors refuse to hire anyone with RJ time. That should put a stop to the undercutting.
And get off you holier than thou perch. Republic IS the new Mesa. Mesa did not become the unliked airline it is from the low wages and work rules. I became that way from side stepping scope and flying large iron at regional rates. Republic is doing the same thing but in a more devistating way. When Mesa added more jets, they offered jets for jobs so at least the pilots that were put on the street had a job with us. Republic is just cutting and running. The will see to it that every former major pilot doesn't have a job. That way they can keep the experience and fight out of their cockpits. They don't want guys getting savy to the fact that what they are doing is scab work.
Republic is the new plague
Coming from a Mesa pilot. Sorry, but when your airline treats its people so bad that they quit at outstations, and have to sneak down the ramp to another gate to avoid schedulers attempts to junior them, you don't have much room to talk. Fight for better work rules so your fellow pilots are happy and you might not see your flying dissapear like it is. Get rid of JO and you might stop hemoraging money to China and Hawaii.
You might consider a little history lesson too. Republic had a lot of J4J guys too.
We aren't flying anything that's been struck, and we're fighting the Midwest stuff from our end too. It's a bad situation and a vast majority of us (including those furloughed) don't want to see our numbers increasing at the expense of mainline jobs. However, we have to protect our contract too and those planes should be flown by our pilots. Remember the Freedom A listers?
As for the regionals, it's not your flying. Delta and others have been pitting regional against regional for years now and it's not going to stop.
In the mean time, I think something about glass houses and stones applies here.