Originally Posted by
bata
The saddest day after fourlough was the ride back out on the crew bus and looking up and seeing a nice shinny new Captain hat and it said blow jets. Oh what the proud capt. I could not even say a word even though he looked familiar and I used to be a Captain. I knew those 70 seat RJs had our airline name painted on the side up at the factory in Montrol. Go ahead jump to the front of the line by pass all the TSA and the rest of the industry pilots; technically. You deserve to be black listed by everyone for your whole career.
Yes, and I used to fly a F-100 making $95,000/year now I am flying an Lear and making 1/2 that. Life sucks, but RJ's from 3 carriers have taken my job. I am not running around screaming about it. GoJet no more took anyone's job than did any other RJ pilot out there. Major airlines have 7000+ pilots on furlough. TSA has 0 on furlough, and I doubt there is any pilot on furlough at CHQ, SKYWEST or MESA, all of which have seen huge growth at mainline expense.
Here is what I could dig up on GoJet. It is from a pretty reliable source. GoJet seems to have legally unionized and the NMB says that they are a single carrier. Thus not an alter-ego, look at page 38 on NMB DOC 33, for proof of that:
http://www.nmb.gov/representation/deter2006/33n009.pdf
http://www.nmb.gov/representation/deter2006/33n021.pdf