Originally Posted by
johnso29
I didn't create you. That was before my time. I also don't hate you. What I hate is your inflammatory attitude that you display whenever mainline talks about recapturing scope or in anyway hindering the potential growth of your airline. You chose to stay at ASA, & if UAL/CAL recaptures scope in anyway, & that results in backwards movement at your job then that is a decision you have to live with.
If you want to add non-inflammatory remarks to a debate as to why you think more scope will be sold that's fine. But your comments are often the opposite, using phrases such as 'beating your chests'. I see it all the time in threads about scope, mergers, and anything else that has to do with ASA.
Have you considered that when you cavalierly throw around comments about eliminating RJs, you're threatening to put me and my fellow pilots out of work? Do you not consider it inflammatory when you say tough luck, you're a contractor and we own you? Why wouldn't we get upset? We're real people with real families to feed. We're not just a bunch of recent college grads who just want to fly a shiny jet.
Simply put, you all want to be "Indian givers". You (or your predecessors at least) gave something away that you didn't want, but now suddenly you decided you want it after all, so you're taking it back, and tough luck for us. I learned in kindergarten that it's not nice to do that.