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I had a feeling Airsupport would come out of the blue and completely misunderstand my post. And I was right. You completely took my post out of context and went off on some tirade. Read my post again. You sir are the one with a an obvious chip on your shoulder and is overly sensitive. My post was not veiled in arrogance or carried a condecending tone. If you interpreted that way, that's your fault and your sensitivity. You may not agree with what I said, but it is the simple truth. Colgan + Pinnacle out number Mesaba. I'll say it again, there is a possibility that a Pinnacle + Colgan majority could vote something in that is marginally better for a Mesaba pilot and very much better for a Colgan or Pinnacle pilot. Those are the facts, by sheer numbers and expectations. I do NOT believe that every Colgan pilot, or Pinnacle pilot would vote at the first offer, just for the sake of it. However, it is not out of the realm of possibility given the reasons I mentioned before that a few just might.
I believe we should all be in this together. But don't forget that this being together stuff involves 3 different pilot groups coming from 3 different perspectives and expectations trying to all be happy as one. It won't be easy and it will hopefully come with lively, professional and civil debate. I also hope that the total nonsense, and you know what I'm talking about, that is over at your airlinkpilots webboard is the vocal minority that needs to get a clue. And spare me the "we saved your butt, you should be lucky" BS. THAT sir, is what will divide us.
ha bored. If you knew I was going to go off like that then you instigated my rant!
Here is the thing. If it was just you saying that then I wouldn't care. You and I have gone round and round about this stuff for a few years now and I would just blow it off if you were the only one saying it. However other mesaba pilots are saying the same thing. That is what is getting to me. And its not being overly sensitive. Its sticking up for the pilots who gave up ALOT by negotiating for over 5 years and then voting down a TA so we could do better. I personally have seen more than $25,000 dollars disappear since we voted down that TA almost 1 year ago (and $15,000) of that I will never get back. The 52% of us that voted no took a huge gamble in sending it back to the company. We had no idea what the outcome was going to be. Little did we know that the NMB would put us on ice. We had no idea that pinnacle was going to buy another airline. We didn't know the path the no vote was going to take us but we made that choice. A little respect for those that stood up would do nicely.
And you are also misinterpreting what I said. I never once said pinnacle "saved" mesaba. I said that pinnacle saw a business opportunity and took it. They do not care about the mesaba pilots or people. They care about the business. Luckily however for the mesaba guys our MEC that you don't trust went to the company and got a deal worked out that would allow people that didn't have a job to go to to come over to pinnacle and join our ranks while things are being worked out. And not only did the MEC you dont trust get that deal they worked it out so the pilots could keep their longevity for everything. So instead of saying the pinnacle MEC needs to earn your respect how about showing them some for all they have done so far.