Killer: We are losing our jobs and being replaced by lower paid workers. How can you get anymore "screwed" than that?

My question is why will you have a job in 3-12 months (guess on how long it will take to integrate yall)?

Answer: Republic

While I don't have a dog in this fight, I do have friends that have been on the street so Republic had the money to buy an Airline that was (F)ailing. Why is that, GREED. Greed of former executive management and pilots alike. So this is the road that you are on now, why in the hell are you so bitter? I would be saddened where my career has gone but there is some glimmer of hope still left, correct? Why not embrace where you are (come to grips), and try and work to make your life better or at the very least as good as it can be.

Once yall complete the first of its' kind 5 way integration everyone should get together for a drunkfest to celebrate the world not ending.


Good luck to all, and to all a good beer (or year if you don't drink)!

Get Real. With airlines like Delta and others pulling the plug on BB's party, he has to have an airline instead of being the leach that they are, sucking the life blood out of other pilot groups. All that will be left in his little empire will be Midwest and Frontier. There are going to be a lot of RJ's sitting idle with nowhere to go soon. This little adventure will be done in three years. Since the majority of the Midwest guys are senior to all four of the others, it is my hope that we get all we can out of this low life company we have been forced to join.

Dirty Rat~you sure are a class act! With that attitude, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Do you have anything to substantiate any of your claims? Which plug is delta pulling? The majority of Midwest guys are senior? I guess the integration happened while I was in the shower.

All the Midwest pilots are going to the unemployment line without a letter, email, LOA, integration meeting schedule, integration plan or even a message on your web site.

Why should we trust you?

The bad attitude should not surprise any Republic pilots.

These Republic people live in their own little world. Undercutting another pilots way of life for their own gain is what they do. That is the purpose of their company. What the pilots of Republic don't realize is the majors are starting to wise up. Midwest was the test bed and the pilots at the airlines who have given them flying are waking up to the fact that they are next if they do not stop this "Wal-Mart" way of doing business. As the pilots of Frontier will soon find out, Republic is a preditor who eats the careers of those who paved the way for them. They have no shame crawling into an aircraft that has been painted in another carriers colors while throwing those pilots out in the street. Contracts don't matter to these people. Even their own.

Yep thats us. We all signed an oath of allegiance to bedford and his union busting, pilot career destroying, wal-mart style of flying. We were all told in the interview that we would only be hired if we were willing to fly a midwest airlines route and replace and undercut their pilot group. Then we were told that the next group would be frontier followed by delta, united, virgin atlantic, and finally American. We had to sign a contract that included a clause that we would be virtual scabs. Also there was a vow of silence so that we wouldnt spread the future of the company.

Yep, that is why your reputation is so good in the industry.

Unfortunately, you've soiled yours all by yourself...