Originally Posted by rickair7777

There is a fundamental problem here...it is not "free market" forces in action, it is our longevity pay scale in action. The longevity scale is basically an archaic mechanism to get pilots to work for peanuts today in exchange for a payoff down the road.

Unfortunately management had figured out that they don't have to actually make good on the the promise...they take your work up front and when the time comes to pony up, they either reduce your payscale in Ch.11 (maninline) or liquidate your jobs and sell them off to the youngest (lowest) bidder in the case of regioanls. The low bidder will always be the company that has the largest number of super-junior pilots.

Comair has simply reached the natural termination point in the life cycle of a regional pilot group. They are older, wiser, and have families and bills so they require more compensation...the longevity scale would have provided that in the past, put today it only provides the means of their demise.

But don't worry, you will get your turn in the barrel when you are an eight year captain with 2-3 little kids...

Actually you work for mesa, right? I think mesa is about to learn all about market forces as they relate not to labor cost, but to product quality. Good luck with that...