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Old 01-11-2010, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by mmaviator View Post
good article. the worst thing about the profession is that this is nothing new and the right(read wrong) people know about the problems with the industry but won't fix it. (FAA, RAA, etc)
Why would they? They've got a nice semi slave operation going. The real problem is that the unions haven't been able to stop them. Two backward steps and one forward step. I'm not talking about Mesa's 08 TA union, I'm talking 10 20 years go. And part of the problem is that the most powerful regional airlines either do not have unions or have very weak ones with an interest in getting 99 seaters... So naturally the smaller guys are left to make their own terms which their bottom feeder management naturally is going to refuse and the cycle continues. Management is laughing to the bank while we're left fighting each other.

At least the FAA is proposing the duty times and I don't know where they are in that but that will hopefully force the airlines to bring in more warm bodies.
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