Originally Posted by STILL GROUNDED

I am truly sorry one of our people said that, this is not the general opinion of things at RAH and certainly not Air Wisconsin. I believe a lot of new young guys who don't know what has been given up or why have a tendency to over compensate for ignorance by saying thing s like this.

Truth be told: If I dead head once a month I'd be surprised so getting paid 3/4 of the hour to sleep in exchange for not getting internally whip sawed when the company tried to start the Republic Certificate ala Go Jet style and the pilot group fought it off, I can live with that one.

As for maintenance cancellations, it has happened to me once in the past 2 year, ONCE! I've been lucky I know. But I personally can't get too excited about that one.

I don't get junior manned because they can't per our crappy contract and I have never seen a pilot sitting hot reserve. For Rigs, I average 6 hours a day and all of my days are 2/1 even with a crappy sit. A weather/maintenance cancellation screws you but its rare.

With regards to beating Express Jet or AirWisconsin this is not going to do anything but put us on top of the fence to be the first to be picked off. In no time flat our code shares will have mesa/go jet/name a regional under bidding our contracts and now we are the ones taking concessionary wages just to keep our jobs. It honorable to fight to be number one but some times ego and laurels can make you an easy target. Most I talk too hear like to fly a little further under the radar. My apologies for my ignorant co-worker.



I just did my taxes and I am looking at $34k with 50% of the year being first year pay. This was for 1004 hours of pay credit but I only flew 850-875 max. And frankly if its my check and I can spend it, its income, per diem included!