Originally Posted by
Bear392
Have you looked at RAH year end filing. Those 717's were returned early and RAH paid a penalty to return them early, they were not returned because the leases were up. They were returned because they were replaced. Why do you think people at Midwest are so angry. Boeing wanted to cut the lease rates in half, they did not want those aircraft back. They would have been much cheaper to operate than the E170/190. But they could not get rid of the pilots unless they sent the 717 back. That's why so many have ill feelings.
Everybody takes a chance on their career in the hopes that their airline will survive. When Midwest goes down the way it did(25 years), not because of being bankrupt, but because of greed between CEOs who are corrupt, that tends to stir the emotions a bit.
Exactly... The management teams at RAH and Midwest are the enemy. I agree with you 100%, but why do a certain few insist that this was the RAH pilots doing? The reality is that BB and pals didn't want to pay you guys your mainline rates and kicked you guys to the curb and paid to do it by ending the leases early. I guess they figured it would be cheaper to pay the early termination fees on the Boeings and pay us regional guys to fly your mainline routes than to keep you guys on. Its horrible and no one here is gonna tell you otherwise. But the fact remains that this is how it went down and besides maybe quitting (which still wouldn't have worked because they would have just hired onto the RAH cert.) there wasn't a damn thing any of us could have done to save your jobs. So again how is this the RAH pilot's fault? Almost all of us here just wanted to get our time, try to make things a little better, and move onto greener pastures. Yet now we have the Rats of the world making empty threats about how he's gonna hurt us as bad as we hurt him. HUH?? Grow up Rat. We all know you got the shaft but place the blame where it belongs. No one that I know wanted any of this BS.