Originally Posted by
minimwage4
I'm not sure what Prater was trying to say with the sacrifice thing. Probably something about industry unity but failed miserably in articulation.
Total replacement of TSA pilots would be practically, economically, legally improbable. Doing the flights to replace a striking pilot group indefinitely even under the most remote legal loophole, would be career suicide for those at Gojet. All Gojet pilots would be hunted till the end of time, not just the original ones. Keep in mind, today's regional pilots will be tomorrows mainline pilots. It's not the way to go. Their so-called union should be working with alpa to resolve this so that the whipsaw between them can end once and for all.
Today's GJ pilots are also [ironically] today's legacy pilots as well. If anybody truly cared, ALPA wouldn't allow an ALPA carrier (UAL) to outsource to such an airline, not to mention supply GJ with furloughed pilots from the major carrier. There's no such thing as flying belonging to a regional airline.
GJ pilots (both off the street and "jet for job" employees) have nothing to fear as far as career expectation. The "originals" as you call them, are never going to leave anyway. They make 6 figures a year, get 14-16 days off a month, including weekends, and live in a city where most of them are from.