Originally Posted by
rjjunkie
oh yeah...whispering sweet nothingness into your head. Now, shouldn't you be over on the Mokulele forums defending BB in Hukahukakumonaiwannalaya or whatever or are you strictly midwest now? Actually...looks like your furloughed, "why don't you just hang back and stretch?"
Anyone on here know when tduck is headed over to MKE to pick up his 190? When's that go in effect for Tduck... because because i have a feeling there will be no stopping him gunnin' for the big one in MKE and i want to see his Sh*t eating grin from those big windows high over the rest of the world.... or wherever midwest goes that is.
miss u
Considering my posting on the subject you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more against these aircraft than me. I've never flown midwest as pilot or pax. I'm far from furloughed. I fly the erj-140 at a nice 44 pax. What about you? You fly the 900 so tone it down a notch.
As far as "You guys never took a stand" goes I seem to recall both Midwest and RAH pilots finding out the same day from the same press release. I also recall that the RAH MEC and Midwest MEC made joint statements to the press about their distaste about this. I also seem to remember RAH pilots doing an informational picket with the Midwest guys.
What more are you expecting the RAH guys to do that won't get them
fired? You expect them to not show up to work, get fired, then have a black mark on their record so they are never hired anywhere else in the future because of a large gap in someone's contract? I'm sorry this has happened but it's not at our feet. I won't speak on behalf of any pilot that works here but I have no guilt and I don't owe anyone anything. I didn't take any flying. My company didn't take any flying. The pilots at Midwest gave it away just like the other majors have over the years which is why we have 170s. They started out at T-props and now have 170s and crj900s. This is the progression of the industry due to the mainlines tightening their belts and the top 51% selling out the bottom 49% at the mainline level. Each and every jet that exist at a regional level is there because at some point pilots at the mainline level relaxed in their contract or didn't argue for it. Same in this case. The pilots at Midwest voted on a contract that didn't have scope protection. I don't know what was expected from that but here's what lack of foresight earns you. CAL and SWA have the best scope protection in the industry and it shows. Due to their pilots taking a stand on these issues they get to reap the rewards.... Sorry but I don't owe you anything 320toBearz. I never did and I don't feel the others here do either. Considering your public denouncement of all those here I think the industry is better without people of your caliber/professionalism and I won't lose an ounce of sleep if I never see you in it again.