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Old 02-21-2010 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy
And it WILL be..... as soon as those guys stop accepting $23/hr.
Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy

This really isn't rocket science, guys. We have half the airline pilots in this country WILLING to work for regional wages. THAT'S why we have half the pilots in this country WORKING for regional wages. And until that changes, the pressure on mainline wages will never end.


Oh no pineapple! you’re giving me flashbacks to a couple of years ago when I was sitting at an Applebee's bar in Strongsville OH when a wasted CAL Captain found out that I was a Coex pilot. He said the same thing, basically we need to scope ourselves so that he doesn’t have to fight for scope I guess. In the 5 minutes he was talking to me he got so angry that he lost his composure completely in front of the entire restaurant and his his friend had to pull him out of the bar. I never even hardly got to say a word other than yes, hi my name is FTB, the ladies say I’m hot and yeah I’m a coex pilot. I'm a lover not a fighter so I'm serious in that I didn't say much. He didn’t finish eating or pay his bill btw, nice. As we used to say over the radio… scab. Whether it was true or not.

Having regional pilots scope themselves could work, in a vacuum. The truth is in order to get as job here with us they must go there and earn what too many, way way too many, mainline pilots have previously supported or condoned as a “paying their dues” wages.

As far as I see it when it comes to DCI, DALPA (I don’t just mean the MEC I mean us) should fight for pay and training improvements. If its our name, our routes, our jets then by all means it should be our wages.

Just think, what we know as Colgan 3407 is referred to as Continental 3407 and rightfully so, our name, our reputation rides with all of DCI.

Now Pineapple, I’m not trying to be combative and I'm not suggesting their pay be increased solely for solidarity reasons. I mean we kid here and I’m realistic to know that won’t happen, but in a vacuum less devoid of reality it’d be good for us if their wages matched ours. But it is not their responsibility to scope themselves and we should not blame them for taking the only practical and relatively fastest path these days to our seats. Unless we start blaming the 07-08 hires for taking jobs at bankruptcy wages.