Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Go Jets was started to get around American scope just like Republic (the airline, not the holdings company) originally was. When Bedford took too long starting Republic, he bought Shuttle America because he was paying a huge fee to the APA. The fact that Go Jets was started as a new list is irrelevant to the mainline pilots whose scope is being circumnavigated. Regional pilots hate Go Jets because they feel like they are being undercut, but to mainline Republic/Chautauqua/Shuttle America, GO Jets/TSA, Mesa/Freedom are all the same. They are all exposing loopholes in mainline contracts to keep the replacement workers coming in. The replacement workers are replacing mainline, not Tran States' workers.
And you were right here with us until you got the phone call to goto NWA. You need to realize that none of us got hired thinking our time here would be any different than yours. Just happens that BB bought Midwest after you had been gone for a couple years. If it were 3 years earlier you would be sitting right here with us taking all the crap being dished out by everyone right on down to and including GoJet pilots.
If you don't want your jobs outsourced then fix the loopholes and this won't be an issue. We can point fingers at whose doing what but whether I decide to quit my job or not there will be someone waiting to fill it. Its up to mainline to secure their scope. The unfortunate fact is that if there are jobs there will be warm bodies to fill them. The solution starts at the top not at the bottom people.