Originally Posted by
FlyASA
Ok prove to me and everyone else here GoJet has good contract.
You are missing the big point. It's about raising the bar and gaining industry leading contracts. There is nothing industry leading about their contract. The only thing the creation of GoJets and their seperate list has done is given Hulas the ability to whipsaw two pilot groups against each other when the new MRJs come.
How is either group supposed to get better QOL, pay, benefits, etc. with that hanging over their heads?
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You keep bringing up the contract. Do you know anything about the Gojets contract? How much we credit what our pay is? Our QOL?
Here is my problem with your bashing.... Your management Skywest or ASA or whichever it is just gave UA 80 million dollars(probably the value of Gojet and a couple of regionals combined) to get more flying. You like to talk about theory and what could have or should be happening in our profession, no matter what happened in 05, how are we and others supposed to get our rates and qol up in our next contract when our management wants us to be paid as little so that next time they can afford to outbid Skywest/ASA when they pay 80 million when they should be earning it with good performance??? Better yet they could just ask us to go non union to compete with skywest hmmm???? As it was said by Leftwing: there is something wrong with working for a regional airline and then bashing another regional airline especially when your reginal just paid to outbid everyone. Skywest RAH etc are supposed to be industry leaders, they're buying up majors left and right and their contracts still say 23 bucks an hour. That is the reality of the regionals and it will continue to happen, that's why it's called the regionals.