Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
No it's not. Midwest said in public statements that it would not have been able to survive without the additional financing.
Other airlines' CEO's have said the same thing and those airlines are still here. It is a move to try and get labor unions to agree to concessions. In the Midwest case, it did not work. Are you by Chance a first officer making less than $37/hour?
Originally Posted by
Killer51883
you miss understood what i said or i didnt make it clear enough. If the most senior guy at lynx is April/May 07 and they have been hiring through to the present time than giving them date of hire would be stapeling most of them since the most junior guy on furlogh at RW is march 08 and most junior working is either january of febuary of 08. DOH would basically be stapeling the lynx guys. once again this is based on the assumtion that most of them have been hired past march 08.
If you give the Midwest pilots straight DOH, the most junior Midwest pilot still working will be about number 20 on the Republic list. DOH is not used anymore. If an arbitrator decides that Lynx is a lesser company than Republic, then he has to consider Republic a lesser company than the other two.
Originally Posted by
nigelcobalt
Well if Midwest pilots are out of a job with mainline pay/seniority, then it HASN'T survived has it. What has survived is a LOGO, and CEO's inflated paychecks. What's left is nothing. Nothing good or worthwhile will be left. BB will be remembered as Lorenzo's protege'.
That is true. For some reason this excites the Republic pilots. They think their airline will be the next major. It will never happen. They will never make as much money as the former Midwest pilots. If they did, it would defeat the purpose of replacing the Midwest employees with cheaper labor.