Wow, this is bad. Y'all beat MAG to the punch too- supposedly we are letting go 80 F8 newhires at the end of the month.

Sux to be fearing for your job; worse to be on the street pounding the pavement. All the best for the future of RAH, I am sure we are all going to be enjoying the various flavors of hurt pie over the next 6 months.

:rolleyes::cool::(

If I were you and I had a decent instructing gig, I'd sit tight for the next year or 2 and hopefully this mess will have sorted itself out by then. Then hopefully you can get in on the next wave of hiring. Who knows, a sweet corporate job might fall in your lap between now and then. At any rate, you don't want to be anywhere near the bottom of a seniority list right now...2008's gonna be a doozey (already has been).

F8 is freedom?

yes it is freedom air (part of MAG)

Sorry for you republic guys that were hoping to get to denver. F9 did what I anticipate many other major carriers will be doing in the future. Any airplane with less than 100 seats (unless it has props on it) is not cost-efficient with the current price of oil, which explains why BB didn't accept the offer f9 gave them about buying their own gas. Republic was a big drain on F9's bottom line. It is not a suprise to me at all that this is the outcome. Unfortunetely for you Republic guys, CH 11 allows airlines to pretty much do whatever they need to do to come out of Bankruptcy, which includes re-negotiating contracts. F9 told BB what they wanted, and BB said no, and now here we are having this discussion. As for the cancelled classes...well I feel bad for you new guys sitting there all excited about flying the 170, which is definately the coolest RJ out there. But you can go back and flight instruct until you have a little more time. It is not the end of the world. I would rather see cancelled Rep newhire classes than F9 go out of business. The pilots at F9 have a lot more invested, and have paid a lot more dues in their career than the 20-year old in newhire at republic. You guys hang in there and someday you will get live the dream and fly for a bankrupt airline someday too:)

That is the best advice I have heard in a long time. Lets all lighten up a bit and stop the pizzzing contests. If you are not facing tough times yourself, then try to support the rest of us who are. We may work on opposite sides of the fence now, but with merger mania looming, we are all going to have to work with each other down the road. When I worked at Subway, I never cheered when my friends at McDonalds got robbed. Where's the love, ya'll?

Now to pour myself the recommended stiff one... (next time recommend two!)

Well said Rightseat

Okay, I normally sit idle and read these forums and never say a word. However, I must say the following...


You, sir/ma'am.... are an idiot. If I could smack you, rest assured, I would.

And you're da** right people are a little touchy about this subject. I cant believe you would get online, hide behind some screen name, and talk smack about our "brag"ging companies without first thinking about those people who, now, have to move their families across the country to a new city (or commute) because of this. Instead of having the comraderie we need to have (and most people in this industry do), you're sitting online all smug like an idiot because we lost a contract.

And I think I speak for 99 percent of the guys out there when I say: To my brothers who are now displaced, industrywide (including the Freedom - Aloha - ATA - Skybus (kinda) - and Champion guys), you have my sympathy.

To this idiot, you have a swift kick in the peas.

he is a SHE....

Well said, brother.... Well said.