Originally Posted by
pjflyer
I can say it was the only option because I have followed YX since the beginning and have seen the company go through it's fair share of financial problem's and poor decisions over the last 5 years. Choosing the 717 over the A319, keeping the MD-80's to long just to name a couple. So you and others feel that the RAH pilots should of refused the E170 flying for YX, is that correct? If that is true, should all regional carriers refuse to fly CRJ700 and 900's for mainline partner's to protect the future of legacy flying? YX choose to award the flying to RAH to save money, the pilots of RAH did not vote or choose to take ANY job's away from Midwest crews. TPG and Midwest management wanted this, not RAH pilot group. Now it's up to us to make everyone happy! Hoeksema can go back to Pine Lake and relax as the pilots at RAH take all the blame, how sad!
I don't believe you should have refused the flying at all. I'm saying that we need to get our history correct if we are going to do the integration. If this ends up being 100 YX guys ratioed somehow and 300 stapled it will just gives management's a playbook on how to once again degrade our profession. It's pretty obvious now that BB used the past year's strategy to lower his costs by purposefully lowering the YX's pilot potential in an integration. I think the "snapshot" should be determined by the time the Rev. got his filthy hands on dictating plans for YX. My best guess is somewhere around June-August 2008. If we don't whose to say that another airline won't buy Republic in 3 years but they really were pulling the strings prior and replacing republics aircraft with new crews and then the magical announcement is made when 75% of the pilots have been furloughed. Just another way management cheapens the profession.