Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
An upgrade and PIC time! As was MY expectation when I started at Pinnacle in 2007. Instead, I'm now approaching 4 years as a FO with no upgrade in sight. Don't even get me started with "career expectation" coming from a Colgan pilot! Had I been at Colgan, I would have a been CA in the top half of the list. Instead, my holding company used our hard-earned money to buy your crappy airline and then buy you Q400s with that money. All the while WE were told our ALPA-contract proposal would have bankrupted our airline. So SHOVE IT! I don't wanna hear it from ANY Colgan guy. You deserve a staple as far as I'm concerned, because our airline saved your sorry-excuse of an airline, and you guys took all the career expectations away from us, when our money was used to buy, grow, and expand you.... at MY expense.
First of all don't be mad at them. The pilots didn't ask to be bought buy Pinnacle. If this is truely how you feel you should be mad at management and shareholders. I was told before you even started at Pinnacle how they wanted to find a way to get other flying other than Northwest. Thier goal was to be less dependant on one airline, and I suppose it's easier to buy into it than to start from scratch. Either way, growth can be very good, but I can understand some of your frustration. Growing pains or the lack of them can be equally frustrating. It's just that everyone has a simular story to tell, but given the choice I'd rather have the former. However, It does suck that you had fight for so long to get a new contract, but again it's not the Colgan pilots fault