I don't think anyone here will disagree with you there. Give the MEC a chance first. There's a lot on the table that needs to be handled delicately.

Dude... Republic is not a National Airline. It's a regional with no reservations, no advertising, no market share, $37/hr FO's, and aircraft painted in another airlines colors. Bedford has alway worked on control costs... Nice job. Let's see if he can sell an airline ticket.

I understand, you guys are stepping up in the airline industry and need to weigh decisions that could effect our profession.

How can you make $45K a year at $37 dollars an hour and no work rules?

Over Time, and there are guys out there that feast off of it despite having guys on furlough!

My guess is he is including per diem and working his ass off. His base pay is $33,300. That is maxed out unless he upgrades. We should make enough that we should not have to pick up extra time just to get by.

It's a national now sport, the sooner you realize that's what is going down the sooner you can stop *****ing about it and start the grieving process.

I wish I flew a real airplane with wing mounted engines and called myself a mainline pilot........:rolleyes:

That's quite the accusation to throw around when you have no clue. I've never picked up a trip since the day we furloughed. I only did twice before that considering I'm a commuter.

Who says we don't have work rules? I flew 916hrs last year but was paid for over 1020hrs and that's before I cashed in sick time.

I'll tell you that you don't have work rules. Your reserves get a minimum of 4 hours per day. You get block or better and a monthly guarantee of 75 hours. Other than that you have no work rules. You have no cancellation pay, trip regs, or duty regs. If a pilot comes in on his/her day off, he/she gets 4 hours minimum on top of guarantee if gurantee is not broke. Did I miss anything? That's about the extent of your work rules. I'm not sure how you guys are getting so much time other than working like *****s and cashing in PDO's.