Originally Posted by
DMEarc
I was absolutely in no way defending Colgan's pay or work rules, both are atrocious. I went to Colgan for QOL, being based at home- doing out and backs. I was extremely lucky for getting hired at CAL at 24 years old. When hired they told our class that the class would be a 757, then changed to a 737. I'm sorry for getting excited about a great airplane, only to get placed on another great airplane.
And as for Colgan flying more Q400s with first class...I feel the same about it as I did before I got in the industry. Growth for regionals comes at the mainline expense, in this case pilot furloughs. You guys furloughed because Colgan went to EWR, we furloughed because you can run IAH-YYZ
CHEAPER!!
So...you just continue to fly my routes for $23-40/hr
How you feel right now about Colgan, is how I felt about ExpressJet when I went to the unemployment office. Thank-you, newarkblows for raising the bar. The quicker ExpressJet stops working for slave wages, the quicker you'll be sitting to my right.
see you still dont get it. You were assigned the 757 before you entered training and came on here bragging about how you are going from a saab to the "757". Everyone laughed at you then because you were so clueless that you actually believed you were as good as sitting in the right seat of that airplane. CAL changed almost every single class of new hires to a different aircraft within the first week of training during the last hiring boom. EVERYONE seemed to know that except mr know-it-all. You coming on here bragging about how great colgan was and how it was the perfect stepping stone to your "757" did nothing but lead more uninformed people to the opinion of "colgan is a good option."
You are as clueless now as you were then. XJT was doing a lot more flying for CAL before you were even at the airlines(colgan or CAL). We are a fraction of ourselves and regional capacity at CAL has shrunk more than mainline. SO were you expecting that as soon as you got hired at CAL all regionals would go away? That Colgan would stop undercutting other airlines and hurting the QOL and Pay in this profession?
You fueled your own demise. Your FAST TRACK TO THE MAJORS mentality lead you to the unemployment line. You cant support the undercutting one second and then as soon as you get to where you think you are safe do a complete 180 and frown upon what you just did. It is called being ACCOUNTABLE for your actions. Mr High and Mighty Mainline pilot do you think we owe you something because you took the easy way and got lucky?