Originally Posted by
ebl14
There is one very important pilot group that XJT undercut, a group with hundreds of furloughs, a far better contract than XJTs. The United pilots are the ones who got screwed, stop this regional-regional who is better than who crap.
You never go full retard...
Tell me exactly how one regional replacing another regional's lift "undercuts" the mainline any more than previously done? Don't get me wrong - I'd like UAL to recapture small jet flying just as much as anybody else, but IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN without 1. significant, unified labor action, 2. a major change in management attitude, and 3. additional UAL ALPA concessions to recapture that scope which has already been sold/given away/taken/otherwise lost.
And other than payrates, from what I hear from friends who work at UAL (or worked there until their furlough), XJT has better workrules than UAL's narrowbody pilots enjoy.