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#11
Originally Posted by QXrjdriver
I think Horizon will only have a net increase of 4 maybe 5 aircraft after they take delivery of the 12 new mega-whackers. The plans are to retire 9 of the baby dash's sometime next year.
#13
Originally Posted by Pilot41
I have no first hand knowlege of GoJet, but Mesa has the history. Not even close.
People can bash Mesa all you want, but Mesa took their crappy contract to scope alter-ego Freedom. Freedom A listers are just as bad as GayJet pilots.
You are right, the comparison is not even close - GoJet is much worse.
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As I understand (I have never worked for either, and have no plans to due so anytime in the future) it TSA pilot had the opportunity to avoid all of this. As I understand it TSA rejected the opportunity to have one seniority list for both carriers. It would have resulted in a 3 year contract extension, not good but maybe better than what you have now. The real problem as I see it, and this is from an outsider looking in, is that TSA pilots were negotiating from a point of weakness. The reality is in the current economic environment one needs to pick their battles, the facts are with thousands of pilots on the street pilot groups have very little negotiating power. It seems to me that there was zero hope of stopping GoJet from coming into being, TSA pilots had little power to do anything about it, and so what was the ultimate goal? My personal opinion is TSA guys are getting screwed; however they should have realized they were dealing from a position of weakness not strength. Again this is a prospective of someone on the outside looking in, which is always different from being on the inside. I do know from personal experience that ALPA has a history of handing out bad advice to its membership. I hope TSA flight crews ultimately get this resolved, they deserve a lot better than they have gotten over the years.
#16
Originally Posted by Pilot41
As I understand (I have never worked for either, and have no plans to due so anytime in the future) it TSA pilot had the opportunity to avoid all of this. As I understand it TSA rejected the opportunity to have one seniority list for both carriers. It would have resulted in a 3 year contract extension, not good but maybe better than what you have now. The real problem as I see it, and this is from an outsider looking in, is that TSA pilots were negotiating from a point of weakness. The reality is in the current economic environment one needs to pick their battles, the facts are with thousands of pilots on the street pilot groups have very little negotiating power. It seems to me that there was zero hope of stopping GoJet from coming into being, TSA pilots had little power to do anything about it, and so what was the ultimate goal?
Sometimes you have to take the lesser of two evils. Really, who is the lesser of two evils?
#17
Originally Posted by C175
TSA guys could have been more proactive and resolved this a year ago. Now it snowballed because of their tenacity
TSA pilots stood firm and rejected a crappy contract extention that would have made their already poor contract even worse, allowing furlough by fleet not seniority, providing furlough protection to the GoJet pilots already on property while allowing the company to furlough J-41 crews as their planes are parked.
How would you have felt if Heller had integrated all the S5 Saab guys at their DOH? You'd probably be pretty ****ed off, and your union did the right thing. To fault TSA pilots for declining an industry-worst contract is foolish at best.
TSA pilots never had a fair shot at securing this flying, despite what any GoJet pilot or TSA manager might say.
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