Originally Posted by Dougdrvr

Everyone here is dancing around the subject. We all need to ask ourselves the question, "Why is Midwest still here?"

None of this makes any business sense whatsoever. Why is management so afraid of filing chapter 11 or just closing the doors on an airline that is now smaller than it's feeders? Why are they paying a consulting firm more money than they are saving by furloughing pilots. Why are they spending more money to subcontract Republic than to continue to operate the 717s?

I think it it's all about 100 seat pay rates and eliminating virtually all work rules. The Midwest pilots are just a bunch of lab rats and ALL of the management entities, involved or not, are salvating at the prospect of throwing this into the mix of their own contract negotiations.

This will affect way more than just the Midwest pilots and their frustration is that no one seems to "get it" while they fight over Super Premium Widebody pay and Carrer Expectations.