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Old 05-05-2010 | 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
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...
See, this is where you lose me. I think it is some Republic pilots who have been acting ignorant, naive, and stupid as you put it. It’s nice that you are in contract negotiations but as of right now your pay stands and the fact that you are even willing to fly a SINGLE FLIGHT in a 190 for those pay rates is appalling. 30 years ago the operation would not have started up until the pay issue was fixed. Unfortunately this is no longer the world or industry we live in.

Come on guys, now that they know you'll fly these things for $35 or less an hour, do you REALLY think you'll negotiate anything CLOSE to mainline wages? The whole purpose/way of thinking behind your business model is flying these routes at a lower operating cost. Midwest and Frontier both already showed that they can't do it for mainline wages and be profitable, yet you think you can move in with 190's and negotiate $100 an hour and turn a profit? Unless you raise ticket prices to a point that would put you out of business anyway, this business model won't work the way BB wants it to. The only hope this business has of being profitable (without raising ticket prices) is for you guys to make a fraction of what mainline pay was and BB knows it. This is why we have to hope for a colossal failure.
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