Originally Posted by Hank Kingsley

Senior guys had their retirement ripped out, one guy at DGS is getting about $50 a month, he's not happy. You're not Delta are you?

Originally Posted by Mesabah

No, this is before, if Comair/ASA had not been ALPA, DALPA would have flexed its muscle, stapled them or worse, and after 9/11 the Comair pilots would have hit the street, not the thousands of Delta pilots. No small jet allowance would have been made.

Originally Posted by poopplop

Anything that they've lost, everyone else has lost too. Also, that doesn't take away the responsibility of selling scope.

Originally Posted by badflaps

That makes no sense at all, most of the guys that lost their pensions were not involved with scope. Comair had a few Bandits and plinked around the Midwast when those guys retired. Jeez.......

Originally Posted by poopplop

So a retired, disabled former pilot with nothing to do but fly around should board before an active, underpaid pilot from the WO who still needs to get to work to feed his family?

Originally Posted by Speed Select

So the S3A code is restricted to 9E pilots going to work? S3C for family and leisure travel? Sort of like our ability to select S2 or S3 at check in? Asking because I do t know. If so, seems reasonable.

Work only, right? Because this is about 9E pilots going to work... Right?

Originally Posted by poopplop

Thanks to both management and mainline pilots. If there was a vote that passed at all, then both are to blame. Be an adult and take responsibility. I chose to join the industry at a time that I knew pilots were in demand and the pay was increasing. And because I love what I do. Just because mainline created the regionals and the road to a major job is tougher then it used to be, doesn't mean I should never have joined the industry. The industry just is what it is, now, thanks to mainline management and its pilots' agreements of the past.

It's just interesting to see the animosity towards regional guys for "celebrating" when they are finally thrown a bone by management, since it was management and mainline pilots together that created the regionals in the first place. No one is out to take away mainline benefits and screw your retirees (even if they screwed everyone else). No regional pilot group has the ability to do so. Any unpleasantness regarding flight benefits should be directed towards management.

Originally Posted by poopplop

Anything that they've lost, everyone else has lost too. Also, that doesn't take away the responsibility of selling scope.

Originally Posted by Scoop

Its pretty easy to look back 20 years and criticize mistakes in hindsight. You act like the Pilots at the time have all the knowledge we have now looking back. It was all new and unknown back then. RJs were brand new, most mainline Pilots did not even know what an RJ was back then. The level of Scope awareness that most Pilots have today simply did not exist back then. But I suppose if you were around then none of this would have happened.

This whole mainline Pilots sold Scope for pay raises like Dick Dastardly snickering away in some back room deal is pretty foolish. Management took mainline Pilots to the cleaners - I'm sticking with ignorance and naivete.

You keep bringing up how mainline Pilots traded away Scope but don't forget we also traded away our pensions, our 6th and 7th week of vacation, LOT bidding etc, in other words most of that stuff was outright taken.

Scoop

Originally Posted by Spudhauler

I've got no animosity to a group, but I don't care for individuals who like to throw around uneducated comments at a group of people they'd like to join. The road to a major is easier now, and I truly wish you well in your career goals, but you might consider shedding the attitude; it won't serve you terribly well.