Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
Every pilot hired at Skywest in the last 7 years was hired as a direct replacement for a UAL pilot that is now out on the street... some of them raising gear for the very guys that were hired in their place for 1/5th their pay. When each and every person in these junior position was hired, they were fully aware (or should have been) that they were replacing a mainline pilot with their lower paying job flying airplanes that were painted the same, flying the same routes, and doing the exact same thing as our 1400+ brothers and sisters were doing before UAL used Ch 11 to destroy our contract and what was left of our scope clause.
I'm not saying Skywest pilots shouldn't have gone out to try to get hired.
Wrong... just wrong. So, you want to complain, but agree that these pilots should have done the same thing anyway?
The 3000 SkyW pilots and the 9000+/- other UAX pilots are not replacements. Express contributes significant dollars to your companies bottom line, which in your best interest.
I have a feeling when the 1400 UA pilots are back on property the replacement argument will go away.
You guys have the same tired arguments over and over. So... 20 people want to go from Fargo to ORD and you want to fly a 320? Great thinking. How does your company get those 20 folks into the system in the most efficent way.. BINGO! Express.
Almost everyone wants out of the regionals, the only ones that don't are the older guys. We have 99% interest in common. I wish people would focus on that instead of the 1%.