Originally Posted by FNFAL

Thats exactly right. The hotel van is a good example. There is always alot of tough talk about calling a cab, but most people never do it.

There is also alot of tough talk about "flying the contract" and "writing everything up", and refusing JM's and extentions, and calling in sick or fatigued, or quitting the company, or getting out of the industry.

But it rarely happens.

Then when there is a displacement, or critically short staffing, there is alot of talk about not picking up open time, but tons of pilots do it anyway.

But in the end with a castrated union, and a pilot group that suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, there isn't much that can be done.

When there is no contract for years upon years you don't

-Pick up open time
-Pick up the phone on your days off
-Avoid fatigue calls even after a bone crushing week of reduced rest or high speeds
-Sign anything management offers you unless its a contract
-Agree to do ANYTHING outside the contract

You do

-fly the contract
-fly safe
-be meticulous with writeups (as you should anyways)

The world won't end if

- a fatigue call is made
-a sick day is taken
-A delay is taken
-A taxi is called when the van driver is MIA

Its pitiful that a pilot group has been this long without a contract. Flying for a Regional is not all there is to life, if you get fired because you are flying the contract... its not the end of the world