Originally Posted by
DashDriverYV
What we do need for our profession to come back is for our mainline friends to lock up scope. If it's a US flight, it needs to be US pilots. Get rid of the regionals all together, and stop the whipsawing. I would rather be a furloughed Airways guy with a name on their seniority list that still sitting at a regional hoping they start to hire again.
Mainline guys, Do everything you can to get back your flying. If it's a 1900 you should be flying it. Start by getting the pay for those aircraft in you contract.
unfortunately i feel that the ship has sailed on mainline flying these aircraft.
we need to come up with a strategy moving forward that accounts for that reality. the solution is out there, mgmt and their dirty tactics have just been a step ahead of labor for at least the last decade. the unions have absolutely no direction. they don't even know where to start right now, as they are spinning their heads fighting eachother over integration issues (AW/US, DL/NW, now the REP debacly) and fighting huge battles over grievances and all the other crazy $hit mgmt comes up with.
it's a lack of leadership from the top down.