Understanding the state of the IBT managing the RAH contract may help a few of the RAH bashers.

1. It was sooooo bad that Mr. Hoffa himself had to step in and appoint new leadership.
2. The new leadership has been in place less than four months.
3. Probably 90% of the RAH pilots where thrilled to have the new leadership and fully support them.
4. The unions are working through the CBA, merging the seniority lists and establishing the new pay rates.
5. The IBT has not given direction to the RAH pilot to anything but show up for work.

Doing anything but showing up for work and flying what they are told right now would be treason against the union and result in absolute termination by the company. When the union says not to fly, few if any RAH pilots will show up to work. Until then, all the RAH pilots are doing EXACTLY what all the flame bait, keyboard commando's would do -- except they are being incredibly professional about it. I have not seen or heard one RAH pilot bragging, supporting, or even discussing the 190's in anything but a negative light. 60% of them planned on a quick upgrade and to be gone in four or five years. Now many of them will be waiting on an upgrade for up to ten years. Do you think they are thrilled with that?

Except for the Midwest Pilots (who are the pawns in all of this), the rest of you need to grow up, put your big boy pants on and recognize that very soon your management could put you in a very similar position. Skywest will likely be announcing some pretty dramatic changes to their organization and flying in the VERY near future. Will the they be the next target of the bottom feeders.

Give this thing three months and much of this will be worked out -- good, bad or indifferent. Until the RAH pilots actually have a voice in the matter cut them some slack.