Originally Posted by BoilerUP

Step off your academic high horse and out of the 135 world, and come into the 121 world.

If you don't think airline unions have given up a TON post 9/11, you are either being dishonest or just plain ignorant. Unions exist in the airline industry because historically management has not proven receptive to the needs of their employees. The fact that Hulas created a Holdings company for GoJet (to get around APA scope) and refused to staff it with TSA pilots (ala Republic Airways) tells the truth. The fact that there was already an initial cadre of off-the-street pilots at GoJet before TSA management even started negotiating with ALPA cements the case, and the fact that the "take it or leave it" offer from TSA management was a crappy, crappy deal providing that initial cadre of GoJet pilots furlough protection proves Hulas wasn't interested in honest negotiation with TSA ALPA.

All TSA ALPA asked for was to fly those planes at industry-average rates. In response to that, TSA pilots got screwed with an alter-ego carrier that damages their bargaining power. Is that fair bargaining? Is that what TSA ALPA 'deserved'? Every pilot that works at GoJet currently or in the future is acknowledging by accepting employment they codone what happened to TSA pilots.

I never worked for TSA, but I had many friends who lost their jobs after moving to STL directly because of GoJet. Time may pass and new pilots may forget or never know the story about GoJet, but every single time I hear "Gateway" on the radio it ****es me off. If you lost your job, or had friends lose their jobs in a similar situation, it would **** you off too.