This might be true... to a point... the union can only tell the company what the conditions are for which we will perform the work. We cannot control things like what airplanes the company chooses to buy, where they choose to fly them, executive compensation.. etc etc. With that in mind, unless we are willing to completey bend over and basically fly for free, the decision has... had to be made as to how low we would go as mainline pilots in order to get that work.. and even then there is no guarantee that the company would have bought those airplanes. I agree that this was a tactical mistake because of the proliferation of those jets and the ability of managements to be able to whipsaw all the companies against each other. I still maintain that it is misplaced anger to blame the mainline pilots for the woes at the regionals because those pilot groups signed their own contracts.. which are substandard.. and the downward spiral gains speed... sorry for the ramble..

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