Originally Posted by
JustAMushroom
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%.
You can have Fargo.
SEA-LAX
SEA-DEN
PDX-SFO
PDX-LAX
PDX-DEN
ORD-ATL
DEN-ATL
IAD-ATL
blah blah blah.
You've been reading too many management songbooks about RJ's contributing $$$ to the bottom lines and matching demand to capacity. Our moron-management trotted out some statistics about average load passengers travelling to ORD from somewhere like DSM. They said it was "65". Well, of course it is!! You've got a 66 seat jet on it! How stupid do they think we are???
If the RJ's were forced to stand on their own, buy their own gas, get their own res system, and fill their own planes, you'd have a lot more Independence Airs.
Of course I'm complaining! I'm a pilot, aren't I?