Originally Posted by WaterSkr

I think it was in 1999, TranSmistAkes started operating RJs. Pilots were jumping for joy....somehow I knew that was the replacement for the DC9/737 job I was striving to obtain through my tenure at the regionals. I refused to bid it. (Much like how I refused to pay for my training at the regionals four years earlier)

I did get a job flying a DC9, but a short while later, after a two year furlough I was flying my ol' DC9 routes in a turboprop. I don't blame management, I don't blame ALPO, I blame myself. I since have adopted the mantra that if the company isn't worth working for, then don't work for them.

We need to be introspective and look to ourselves as the only resource to fix the mess this industry has become.