JoeyMeatballs

sooooooooooooo jealous, I wish I could show my friends how BIG and AWESOME the 170 is...............

The only problem I have is your fearless leader is so generous when it comes to forking out cash, yet he can't find it in his heart to pay you guys better for mainline airplanes...........yet you seem to be fine with it, and have the marbles to come on here and tell me to stop crying................

Surprised you guys aren't up in arms that your company has all this cash to throw around, yet you guys aren't seeing any of it

JoeyMeatballs

haha, at least you guys are putting up a fight

IMHO

Somewhere in the dark dungeons far below the corporate headquarters of RAH, a meeting has commenced. Phase three of the master plan has just been completed and the attendees, huddle around their fearless leader waiting for the go ahead for phase four. BB lifts a gnarled finger, throws his head back and cackles loudly. His scheme is working perfectly. The plan has come together nicely and with little opposition. Soooon, he says, veeerrrry soooooon. The meeting attendees shiver with anticipation. Soon, we will launch a hostile aquisition of floundering airlines nationwide. We will Steamroll into MKE, MCI, HNL, PHL, PHX, CLT, DCA, LGA, DEN our tenacles will reach into all corners of the world. RAH will rise from the ruins, the carcases, of these failed companies, and with the help of Barack Obama we will be the Nation's Carrier, the Flag carrier of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the people's Republic, our competion will be driven from business, one nation, one airline, one Republic, under God...HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW he screeches...

Well, it could be happening let you guys tell it.

CANAM

Dude, you work for M-E-S-A!!!!! Chillax son.

Netruckcap

I started with CHQ in 2002, then went to republic later on and have since left the Pax Airline biz. In 2002 you could see that Bedford figured out he could make a whole lot more money making his little airline a big one than to go to a major and work in their managment. He is hedging his bets every time he throws money a struggling airline. In every case he will win. With airways it was gate space, with Midwest it was infastructure, with Frontier it is airplanes. If the airline pulls out of it's economic troubles, Bedford comes of as the guy who was there to help. So you owe him routes. If your airline goes under he has got first dibs on your equipment. Just think, If every company Bedford has his teeth in failed, one by one, how big would republic be? The market currently sucks but my money is on Republic being a big fish in the next 5 years. Yes, it will bring down salaries as a whole. However, Bedford nor the flying public care. Most of my FO's didn't care either, be it parents or a reitirement from the Mil or previous job or well to do spouse, made working for next to nothing posible. My question to other pilots at large RJ flying regionals and myself was, if I am now flying a Mainline aircraft on Mainline routes, Will there be a Mainline airline to go to once "I have done my time?"

In the end the flying public will be happy so long as they can continue to by cheap tickets, and subsidized pilots will continue to work for little or no money so long as they can point to a big shiny new aircraft and say "that's what I fly."

And Bedford knows that.

JoeyMeatballs

finally...................someone who gets it, very nice post.

Post of the year

yet like I say these pilots will do it with a smile on their face, pathetic

NightIP

RAH pilots calling XJT pilots jealous? That, my friends, is hilarious.

GAPILOT36

SAAB, the thing is that you won't ever get that chance...cause you will never get out of flying a 50 seater. And when was the last time "your" company gave cash to help the codeshare or another codeshare. To do that you must make money. And seems like we have been doing something right to be making that much money to give out, essentially we have saved many many jobs.

NightIP

So wait, your company is giving out loans but you have how many guys on the street? Say again, over?

powrful1

This is actually the second money RAH is giving Frontier....already ponied up $25mil, which Frontier is getting ready to pay back this month, so really they are loaning them money 40Mil so they can pay back 25mil....or $15mil of additional money.....get with it!