Once agin the RAH pilots are happy about taking mainline jobs, Just what I love to hear, we are Mainline; when YOUR NOT!
Just talked to a friend at USAPA, I guess USAir has violated the scope clause, and has too many ERJ-170/175's and CRJ-900's I hope that RAH gets the boot, and not that i Love Mesa, but they are an ALPA carrier in contract talks!
Bottom feeders need to go away, that includes RAH!

Lets rewind a year and see all the posts about how the 70 and 90 seat rj's are a godsend and will be a good thing for this industry. I dont knock the pilots for flying them but its pretty ignorant to say "YES we got more flying" when everyone knows and its been proven to show that 70 and 90 seat regionals are taking away more jobs at the majors then any 50 seater ever could. Sure 50 seat jets took away jobs at the majors but it could never be viewed as a direct replacement for a small 73 or Airbus product.

If i was at republic i would be cautious in dealing with this management. If they are that willing to screw over their own employees you can start to imagine how they will treat you.

And it appears that frontier flying is gone for good. That money invested into Frontier better get you guys something good when they start auctioning off pieces.

You might want to chill out with your nonsense there Maverick. The overwhelming majority of folks here at RAH aren't too happy about this and are more than a bit skeptical.

I second that, we are not happy in the least! The way this all sounds is it isn't right. I have flown on Midwest a good deal commuting to work, great people very friendly, wonderful product that has taken a long time to build up.

Sometimes this industry sucks and blows all at the same time.

put on your glasses and read the 7 pages of RAH pilots saying this is crap...

Jeez...stark reminder that airline business is still corporate america. The bottom line will make companies do some freaked up shate.http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/im...upload/nea.gif

Obvious troll.

I talk about factual, substantiated information. I don't rant about a pilot group or how any one carrier is supposedly undercutting contracts or bringing the QOL life down for the entire industry. When I speak of a company it's not simply to trash talk it's to actually have an educated conversation about the performance of a place relative to the industry. "Spreadsheet" talk if you will. I don't talk about possible imaginary deals with other carriers and pilot groups.

No I haven't looked at the contract directly. I have read the reports filed by CAL of how the agreement came to be. Also don't forget that Ream himself has stated how low ball it is and that your pilot group is being asked for concessions.
All the claims I've ever made are publicly available for anyone willing to actually put down the kool-aid and take a read. Considering the way things have gone down I'd say I was pretty accurate. Of course I've been told for the past 1.5yrs how I don't know what I'm looking at and XJT is doing great:rolleyes:
First off you still don't know what's happening at Midwest. Secondly, yes I know how XJT was whipsawed but the original poster of that message said something along the lines of when an airline is about to go BK here comes a regional accepting a low contract and how majors are being supplied by "cheaper, eager" regionals. Is XJT a cheaper regional now that they have such a cheap contract with CAL?

There's irony all over that guys post. He's doing his best to try and place blame somewhere and not noticing that XJT is a business just like RAH or any other place and has made the same business moves. Whipsawed or not XJT signed a deal so low that there are about to be paycuts. Multiple opportunities to fix that place and Ream always thought he'd do better going the other way.

They are furloughing me. Read up on HR rules and laws, all contracts become null and void at 11:59pm on the 8th. If the furlough is not recinded (I pray God its not) by the 8th I am not bound to that contract. If they think otherwise I will see them in court.

If you are furloughed, then you are protected by the CBA to have recall rights. Therefore, you must honor you training contract until a mutual agreement can be reached between you and the company to void repayment of the training contract. If you refuse to return to work when recalled, than they can terminate your furlough status and force you to repay the prorated amount left in your training contract. The only way to not pay this training contract while on furlough is to let time run its course. After 2-years of employment, furloughed or not, you are not obligated to pay the training cost.