Originally Posted by
boilerpilot
Swelbar's thoughts are written out in their entirety in the "scope scope scope" thread in the majors forum. In the first couple of pages, I believe. Read that and my post disecting it before you jump to conclusions that this guy is on anything but managements side. This guy also is close friends with Glenn Tilton. That should tell you where his loyalties lie.
He's on the investor's side which happens to be management's side too.
Originally Posted by
Lighteningspeed
No doubt. He wrote that pilots must accept lower payrates, benefits and work rules for domestic flying with which I TOTALLY disagree.
Having said that he does bring out some accurate points regarding circumstances that led to our current demise of pilot profession.
I'm against the degradation of pay, benefits and work rules too, but that's part of the problem when thousands of pilot are competing with each other for jobs. The solution from the mainline pilots is for all the regional pilots to quit and find office jobs. Not only will this not work because not too many pilots are going to give up their jobs for you, but even if they did, there'd be a few thousand more standing in line to take over.
Thanks for being honest and agreeing with me about the accurate points. This is exactly what I meant.