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
So, where's "Winglets" on this one? I'm sure, with Riddler and Rickair777's help, you could get this thread shut down too. Maybe ya'll could just start a thread to bash all "bottom-feeding" regionals and have a good ole time hammering Mesa, Gojet, Great Lakes, Cape Air, etc.
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information, (not opinion), here are new to the industry, and to equate them with SCABs degrades the serious nature of a SCAB, (which you should know all too well since CAL has REAL SCABS still flying). Is that hot-chick gold digger a prostitute? Not unless she crosses a line. No Colgan pilot is crossing a CAL picket line, are they?
Something to think about...since your ERAU days, the industry has changed to Commuter pilots flying larger jets for turbo-prop wages. At least Colgan is a pure turbo-prop operation, and if all Regionals did that while saving the high paying jet jobs for the Majors, the industry would be a better place.