Originally Posted by
slumav505
At the time or acquisition, YX was losing all it's airframes. And had most of it's guys on furlough. F9 was furloughing. So you are saying they are more "entitled" to my pitiful right seat in an RJ that I was hired into... I don't think so. I'm sorry but when we were all on the street we were all competing for jobs against each other. It's not my fault that their companies went into bankrupcy and got bought. I happened to be furloughed by a company that didn't really need to, and I got my seat back. Awful lot of belly aching from guys who have had some tough luck. Again, if the major's hadn't caved on allowing RJ's to be flown for pennies on the dollar, these mega regionals would not exist, nor have the money to acquire LCC's. 76 seats is still too much.
Can you please get the facts straight. Midwest was never in BQ. It was a merger. Midwest wasn't losing all it's planes. At the time of BB getting his corrupt fingers into this mess nearly every plane was still on the property. Funny how after he got involved all the planes with pilots with respectable wages were returned. They were returned to Boeing and RAH paid a penalty to do it. In addition the lease rate for the 717 was $20,000/month LESS than the E170. Obviously there was a pilot pay motive in all of this. You also forget that BB has said himself that because of the Midwest merger and Frontier buy out it saved a boat load of planes from moth balls.
Some of the majors did cave on allowing RJ's for financial considerations but the majority of rj lift has been added because of BQ courts ramming it down the Major pilots throats. Not a lot they could do there.