Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
...Two, is to understand that the best way to deal with this is to shrink the regionals. This can be done many ways, but the best is to make sure you vote you position on any contract "improvement" that sells more flying. Do not feed the problem. Three, unity means all pilots. It is not convenient nor easy. It means working with them to give them a career after you take their job and move it back to mainline. Unity at all ranks would solve a lot of it. It is not the quick solution it is the lasting solution. .
Didn't we have just the opportunity to do this with Compass and our own union couldn't even get the issue looked at. The only thing that I remember hearing was "We can't do that flying because we are too expensive". It may have been muttered somewhere, but I never heard someone say "well, this is a difficult situation, but how can we work with the company to recapture that flying".