Originally Posted by naley70b

La Belle Epoch

A time once existed where people of the same trade trusted one another, fear was not a word often uttered and fright was an adjective even less frequent. They counted on each other for safety and were able to predict the types of situations they might encounter as a group. As a coalesced unit they had a very firm understanding of the way each other worked and were almost psychic in their prediction of each other’s needs. We have recently lost this understanding and cooperation and are very soon to be placed in a tumultuous situation in which we have a very vague understanding of one another and a very limited shared view and even smaller toy chest of shared experiences to draw upon. Despite what our leaders think we are not one group, we are but five small and fractured groups, with distinct views and preferred methods that are drastically different from one another. As is usually the case our fearless leaders have taken an unbroken machine and torn it asunder into a thousand different bits that no longer talk to one another and no longer care to. The Piedmont crew base at LGA was a decidedly unique and beautiful thing that developed out of god-knows-what kind of situation and was allowed to grow and shrink as it might until, for whatever reason, our leaders decided a group of crews that enjoyed their lives was no longer productive to their bottom line, or whatever and a stop to this must be initiated.

No longer shall these people enjoy their lives working for a sub-par airline, no, we shall take any promise of these people living a regular life away from them, they shall abide by our insane rules of living in the backwoods of the East! I think I heard commander Farrow once utter these very words, maybe. Maybe not.

Anywho, Thus goes on the lives of these poor souls who thought they once had a future and once perhaps enjoyed their lives. Thus goes on their march towards certain doom and certain failure as we all must endure. What we once believed to be our protectors have surely become our antagonists and they will surely be our demise in some form or fashion.

Thank you for taking our trust and belief in a system and completely destroying our good will and hard work. Never a better system of engendering good will existed.



...of course i'm being a little dramatic, but isn't that what this career is all about?. . .

Originally Posted by weekendflyer

Just curious, I noticed on the company website that piedmont has a west coast operation, how are these dash's going out to the west coast if they have no bases out there?

Originally Posted by Wapilot23

Anyword yet if a September class will be held?

Originally Posted by FLYING HIGH

Again and again and one more time Piedmont pilots get slap in the face now with the announcement of Skywwest flying for US Airways