nah, I don't think he was a moron, just couldn't land..................

 

Show a single post ever where I've dissed XJT? Just find one. Talking about the company's financial position isn't an insult. If there are memo's being passed about one company looking to purchase another there's nothing wrong with talking about it. You guys don't seem to have any issues talking about Delta/NWA mergers or CAL/United mergers but you bring up XJT and now someone needs a hug.

 

LOL...Is that what that is? I found in on a crash pad computer one day and thought it looked cool. I have never really been into flight Sim so I had no idea.

 

Nope...Beg to differ with my friend. I don't rush to the forums with every company's 10Q extolling their demise. I'm not trying to pick on you but...you do appear to to be the "schadenfreud" kind of guy when it comes to XJT. I wouldn't begrudge any guy trying to put food on his table. Hell I even remind my nine yr old that the garbage man is a honorable man and the panhandler is a bum. I always tip my hat to the CHQ bubbas in IAH and treat them like the professionals they are when they jump. Lets not forget "the enemy of my enemies is a friend". We should be all flying at mainline with these jets and earning an appropriate wage. A jet is a jet is a jet!!! Widebody more revenue...more pay. Narrowbody less revenue...less pay. If the egotistic guys at the mainline carriers would have agreed to allowing any jet platform from 37 to 112 on property instead of going to regional/national sub-contractors we would not have all of these problems we do today with whipsawing. Maybe we all need to read "Flying the line Vol I and II again as we begin the next round of contract talks.

 

I didn't start this thread. I'm not ignorant to the numbers either. I could care less who does or doesn't work there. This is about a public statement made by a massive shareholder in XJT and the possibilities. The only people who have made any damning statements about the pilot group are you guys working there twisting our words and people like SAAB who just burn a bridge at any given opportunity. "A jet is a jet is a jet" and a company is a company is a company. A pilot group is a pilot group is a pilot group. Until someone states "pilot" in their sentence then it isn't referring to the pilot. Act like some insecure ex-girlfriend who thinks just because she hears talking around her that it MUST be about her.

 

You are missing the larger point. If I looked at this job like any other job, I wouldn't mind stepping all over you to get ahead. But this should not be like any other job. I would not be happy doing the flying for pilots that were put out on the street. The only organizations that I feel good about failing, are the ones that treat their pilots and other employees like excrement. Mesa --Blowjets--Go-- you bet jump all over it. I harbored no ill feelings when you guys picked up the 69 jet loss of flying...never a sneer or dirty look. I knew CAL was driving the boat on that deal and we were pawns. But once again we all need to take a step back take a deep breath and agree to help each other out. There should be minimums for wages, QOL, benefits, safety and rest rules. These are basics that scumbag operators like mesa do not care about. Instead of fighting each other we should be uniting to fight those that have degraded the profession. Who do you think is going to die if they are pushed to exhaustion...the middle managers or the pilots along with the pax?

 

OMG

 

Every XJet landing is a thing to behold. Funny the other day approach went crazy on a XJet on sequence when asked what his indicated airspeed was after he was assigned 160 a few minutes earlier...XJet replied 210! Usings SAABS genius logic I can now sumise that all XJet pilots can not maintain airspeed just like Colgan as an airline can not land.

 

gos this is terrible, we are like 9 yr olds..................

 

Agreed it is quite terrible! Wish it did not have to be like this but when someone pushes, another will push back. To talk about real issues is one thing, landing style is another. It has about as much substance as us calling eachother "smelly" or "stupid faces."