Originally Posted by CaptainNameless

I wonder how many showed up? 2 XJT pilots reportedly picketed in IAH. One MEC guy and one line pilot. I was conflicted. I brought my hat with me that day (11/30) and I had the time to go picket after commuting in before my trip, but I just couldn't make myself go. I think I would have vomited in the picket line.

If there was a PLAN other than simply taking OUR jobs (yes, I am declaring them OUR jobs after 15 years of giving them away to US and forking over OUR careers for their mainline pension/pay protection that isn't working out quite like they thought it would) and telling us to get at the back of the bus to get rehired at mainline when they take them back? They can go forking fork themselves.

Give me a PLAN other than "sacrificial unemployment" and blowing a huge forking hole in my already 40%-discounted airline pilot career because they woke up 10 years late. Yeah, right. XJT guys have been some of the strongest union pilots anywhere, but we are sick of hearing it from the other side. At this point, we need whatever pennies we can salvage of the chit our careers have become. We need to forget about empty mainline promises that will do nothing to make our careers any less chitty than they are. The majors can have the RJs back, but not before every RJ pilot fights for every last penny that we can get. Management played this perfectly. But that doesn't matter now. We have been divided and regional pilots have NO reason to help you. Sorry.

Maybe go picket if you have been at stuck at regionals only a few years, not 10 or 12. I don't think any regional pilot is entitled to anything, but how about a small bit of recognition? After a decade, I need a PLAN other than the back of the career bus.

ALPA and the mainline MECs are so jacked-over they have ceased to have a reference point to just how jacked they are.

They are like panhandlers your ignore on the street. They want to give you a story and steal from you. They are going to have to take it, or give me a plan that doesn't destroy MY career even more than it has been already. Until then, give me the 70 seaters and the extra $4 to fly it for as long as possible until the mainline guys are forced to fork their own careers to get it back. Why? Well, it's because it's AVAILABLE TO ME. As far as I can tell, there is no mainline job at any payrate that is AVAILABLE TO ME. Sell my "future at mainline" for a paltry $4 override. Yeah, well, it's $4 I can't get anywhere else. Make it back in the right seat of a 737... 6 years from now... yeah right...

The AGE 65 APOCALYPSE and now they want the jobs "back at mainline" Great plan guys. That sounds really great. Get a better set of ideas or GO FORK YOURSELVES..