Originally Posted by
bernouli
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.
One of the worst precedents that ever happened in this industry, it wasn't a flowback displacement of captains.It was these guys CHOOSING to REPLACE THEMSELVES for 1st year regional pay augmented by their union to 2nd year regional pay.
If NMB will release them this year TSA will strike and then we'll see really where the Gojetters stand, I give it 50/50. The only thing that might grant them some moral fortitude are the United guys who won't want to forever be labeled as true Scabs.
Of course, these may not be career minded United guys since they decided to torpedo their return to united by providing their skills to the regional causing the job loss.
True it all flows from Tilton, but we as pilots don't need to help him out.
And don't give me that feed my family crap, unemployment is more than gojet and if you really want to feed your family perhaps it's time to explore other career avenues since this one is sooo helpful.