Originally Posted by eaglefly

That's why this (PBS) is so desireable to the managers of airlines. It allows THEM more flexibility and thus they can operate with less pilots.

Exactly. Look for a displacement to come out next week with downgrades. I'd expect furloughs to follow, as the Delta flying goes bye-bye.

Good for them........not so good for pilots. In the hands of a company like Mesa, the results could be horrifying (and likely will be).

I can guarantee they will.

This check-in thing seems like a nice way of making demands of pilots during their off hours (without pay). If you call in on your time off with a cold beer in your hand (24 hours in advance) and they inform you they're junior manning you NOW for flying they need to cover, what'ya gonna do........call Ghostbusters ?

You're not on duty when you call, so you can be drunk(outside of 12 hours to show time), or anywhere in the nation. I don't worry about this at all.

Of course, when one sees ALPA national publicly claiming this as a victory, well........what can you say about a labor union that places self-serving facades used for the benefit of their own appearance vs. accepting the reality that everyone else clearly recognizes ?

Add these two together (ALPA national B.S. and a horrendeously bad agreement) and the future of regional flying is certain to be the extremely profitable sweatshop management wants it to be.

For the first time ever, I completely agree with you. ALPA is completely worthless, and is under equally worthless management (Prater). Nothing will be done as long as regional airlines are voting them in and asking them to take their money(read: Colgan).