Originally Posted by JetBlast7
Anyway lets get back to the original thread topic before it was hjacked by our friend slappy. Its nothing personal and we would never wish anything bad directly at another pilot group, but if Republic's business model succeeds all of our carrers greatly suffer. Until you guys get a payscale in the vicinity of Jetblue, we HAVE to hope your company fails (not you guys as pilots, but your company). We have to hope for this for the sake of the future of our families, incomes, carrier asperations, ect. Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but with your current pay to fly 99 seat aircraft, theres a pretty good chance most pilots you pass in the airport are praying for your company to fall. Hopefully someday you can all rise up and get a contract that is 50% of what Jetblue has.
Here's the part where I remind the APC peanut gallery, AGAIN, that 1. RAH has been in contract negotiations for at least a couple years, 2. in the last 12 months their company has bought what, 4 airlines that will require a SLI, complicating the matters of representation and contract expectations, 3. its ridiculous to compare JBLU wages established 6 months ago with wages set in a contract ratified in OCTOBER 2003 (which for the CA seat are higher than AWAC had in their Oct2003 contract for the 100-seat B146, yes their FO pay blows), and finally and most importantly, 4. DON'T YOU PEOPLE THINK RAH PILOTS WANT E190 PAY IN THE VICINITY OF JETBLUE?
Its not my intent to pick on JetBlast7 directly, but posts like his make me ashamed to be peers with the younger "me" generation of regional airline pilots that is seemingly too ignorant, naive, stupid, or all of the above to understand the pace & reality of airline collective bargaining, and how 'we' as an industry got to where we are now...
/end rant
//my lawn, get off it, etc...