Originally Posted by
Fugazi
PSA management already tried to play dirty with the pilot group here. PSA's pilot group overwhelmingly voted down 900s without a proper pay rate in place to fly them. There are plenty of senior regional lifers here that firmly believe "gain aircraft now, negotiate rates later" but they are bumbling idiots and largely out numbered by non-inbred, educated folks.
Strange. You'd think it would be the other way around.
It's very doubtful that Airways will not give the flying to Mesa unless the rest can come up with a better deal. They will get some kind of concession from the pilots and they will agree. Although I have no idea what concession they're going to get out of them since their operating costs are almost free. However, keep in mind that USair knows that you get what you pay for. It could also turn out that the Mesa alpa doesn't agree to the concessions, but very unlikely. There is also the possibility of people buying the CRJ9s at a Mesa chapter 7 garage sale and flying for Airways that way. We shall see.