I love how the winglet is still embedded in the tail. Hopefully the 767 captain has some nice kneepads.

How did you interpret "One less RJ" as an attack on the pilots?

Well, it is one less RJ. Too bad it will be replaced shortly by insurance if it's not able to be fixed. :(

The outsourcing issue has to be fixed, though... and it's up to us. I saw a passenger walk up to an ASA pilot not long ago asking them to help with finding their gate. The response? "Find someone that works for Delta to help you."

An inferiority complex of the worst kind...

First of all, it's an airplane, just like any other aircraft...I hate to see damage to Cubs, 152s, RJs, and yes 767s...Second of all, if this had been the other way around, y'all would be blaiming inexperienced "regional pilots" for their screw ups...Instead it's yet another insensitive attack from the higher than mighty "mainline" pilots who decided that some aircraft are "only RJs" instead of simply "aircraft"....

Since no one went there yet. That tail SURE looks messed up. OH!!!

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KLEX, KBUF......

I'm sorry, but really!?

Our caving on scope was a big mistake on our part. I accept that and will be fighting my union to take it back with all my might. It is MY highest priority. You and other regional pilots continue to provide management with their most important tool - working for far lower wages. This is the very tool that makes management want to outsource in the first place. When will you accept your half of the responsibility and what is your plan to change the current trajectory?

Carl

Carl,

I have been at ASA for 17 years now. I have had at least 1 payraise, usually 2 payraises every year for the past 17 years. The top ASA pilot now makes over twice what they did when I got hired and we actually fly smaller airplanes now...We did fly 88-100 seat aircraft back then. We are not the problem....

During those 17 years, I spent many of my early years working within ALPA when I actually believed the BS that came out of Herndon...During that time, I had the opportunity to talk with Randy Babbitt in his office when he was President of ALPA...After he got done telling us we were only "regional" pilots and we couldn't get what we were asking for, he went on to tell us that he and the rest of the Eastern MEC made a mistake by allowing Eastern management to outsource the "little airplane" flying to Eastern Metro...He said they weren't interested in flying "little airplanes"...and thus it began...Mainline "big airplane" ego screwed this up forever...It isn't going to go back now...

Because of mistakes made by YOUR generation, many of us have made a career here...What are YOU going to do to try and mend the fence? I and others are tired of the constant attacks by you and your generation that caused this mess...Regardless of who is too blame, it is tacky to laugh about an accident and simply say "at least there is one less RJ"...

KDFW, KDTW....do you really want to go there?

I guarantee you, I don't get on after a mainline incident and go "at least that is one less mainline aircraft"...