Originally Posted by
TheTransporter
The most Jr captain at QX is almost 11 years, don't pull that longevity crap. Horizon has and does continue to make money, despite our pay rates and benfits. So that argument is crap as well. As long as you and every person at skywest decides that you will continue to accept sub par wages, YOU ARE AT FAULT. I know you think its part of the game, but it is the livelihood of 3000 people at stake and that is at just this company. Every time you go to sleep, remember that it is because you would not stand up for what is right in this industry, people that would stand up lost their jobs. You can make more flying a twin cessna, at a profitable company, and make more then a emb-120 captain does at skywest. It really doesn't matter what I say, YOU will never get it, because that is who you are.
You have every right to feel slighted and wronged. What has happened to the pilot group at QX is not fair or just. We each chose a company based on personal circumstances and hope that it will be stable and good for our future. The pilots that will be flying these routes are doing the job their company is telling them to do. None of them were making the deals or handling the negotiations for this flying. That doesn't make the way you feel any less valid, but I fear you are placing your anger towards the wrong group of people.
This business exists to make companies money. The companies are the ones pulling the strings and we as pilots are just trying to do our jobs professionally. I have been fired from a job for refusing to take a 40% pay cut after another pilot came in and said he would do it for 50% less. I was angry with this pilot because of his underhandedness. The pilots at OO are not the ones who made this deal, the company is.
This forum is a breeding ground for hate and anger. Until we can stop placing blame on each other and start focusing our energies on positive business strategies to help one another, this forum will be a wasted space of insults and hostility