Originally Posted by D'Angelo
No actually pilots have a lot to learn. They try and ruin lots of peoples lives with their selfish strikes. Without dispatchers, bag handlers, customer service there would be no airline. Pilots are too arrogant to realize that fact. PILOTS DO NOT MAKE AN AIRILNE GO ROUND. It takes a team effort. Unfortunately somewhere along the way pilots egos got way out of control. Now they think they are better than everyone else. NEWSFLASH we pilots are no better than anyone else. No we pilots are simply cogs in the machine. Without management and everyone else there would be no airline and thus no paycheck. If you asked a pilot though they are the only ones that make an airline go round and round. Sorry but people are calling BS on that. I am ashamed of some of the pilots I have to associate with. They are too arrogant to realize they are no important than anyone else.
It's not a matter of arrogance or of what we THINK we are worth, it's a matter of WHAT WE CAN GET! Management and other employee groups will do everything in their power to take whatever they can...if we try to be altruistic we will just get burned to the ground for our trouble.
Pilots have more leverage to damage the company in a strike because we can't be rapidly replaced like rampers and mechanics. FA's also take time to replace, but not as long as pilots.
We can only advance and protect ourselves by striking or threatening to. This is the way it has to be at most airlines because management in this industry is inherently unethical (I have worked in other industries where this did not appear to be the case). In this environment there is always room for a compay like skywest that voluntarily meets and exceeds industry compensation standards in order to foster a good, non-union labor atmosphere...but they only rise to the barr set by the unionized carriers.