Originally Posted by
PeezDog
I don't care who you are or what you say, money talks. Does anyone really think that if management offers the pilots enough money that they will care about the regional pilots below them? I personally don't think that the top half, if not more, of the mainline guys give two ****s about RJ's and outsourcing. As long as they are getting theirs, they don't care. And if you offer them an even bigger slice of the pie, they will care even less. If I was a senior mainline guy, I wouldn't care either and would take the money.
Big money doesn't mean squat when your flying gets furthered outsourced and you get downgraded back to FO. You don't think so? Ask a DAL CA who lost his DC9 CA seat and went back to 757 FO. You think he will vote in more pay and less scope? At NWA/DAL we have watched the DC9 fleet shrink from 160+ airframes to less then 50. Meanwhile the E175's & CRJ900's kept rolling in with new shiny paint, and the displacements/downgrades continued.
Perhaps you saw UAL park 94 737's? Yes, 94 of them in less then a year. You really think those guys will vote in more pay for less scope? CAL has 250+ 50 seat RJs and numerous 70 seat Q400's taking former 737 jobs. You really think those guys will vote in more money for less scope?
I could go on, but like Mainline pilots I think you get the point.