Originally Posted by
Riddler
I have no problem with folks who get their careers started at Colgan. I have no doubts that CAL has plenty of well qualified professional pilots who started there.
My issue is one of TIMING. All I'm saying is that Colgan's Class of 2010, while not scabs, appear to have the same motivations as CAL's scabs from the mid 1980s. CAL has plenty of skeletons in its own closet. Guys who would WILLINGLY and KNOWINGLY undercut a fellow furloughed union pilot are the same types of people who would act along the lines of CAL's own scab captains who volunteered to fly in the right seat while guys like me got furloughed.
That sort of behavior is reprehensible and should not be encouraged.
Riddler
Riddler while I can see why you feel in such disposition you fail to look at the facts of this hiring stage. Colgan ( you can ask USMC or I can give you friends numbers who work for Colgan) is NOT hiring into the Q they are hiring due to current pilots being upgraded. Some current Colgan Saab Captains are moving into the Q as Captains, Some FO's are moving to Q FO's Some Saab FO's are moving to SAAB captains. The "NEW HIRES" as of right now are going to the Saab FO spots.
Colgan picked up a few more Saabs for United in addition to the 15 Q;'s comming in the Fall. Looking at the facts Continental is a relatively new carrier for Colgan their ORIGINAL bread and butter lays with US Airways and United. Colgan Currently still flies under three Flags so to only look at one third of the house is simply misjudging the airline as a whole!