It has happened approx. 4-6 times now. 30 day suspensions seem to be the norm for the F9 offenders. More than 1 F9 Captains are doing it. Now who is it that is representing them when they go to HQ for the carpet dance? Is it FAPA? Help me out here... My friend had this happen to him quite recently so the "professional" F9 pilots are being pretty childish...

 

My lanyard supports my union (that actually exists) against management in an effort to show unity. The FAPA lanyards are a direct shot to the IBT 357. FAPA lanyards need to go. Just wear the republic airways ones since they are your alies anyways.

 

I'm not uptight at all, but thanks for assuming. It saddens me that this continues to plague our company. I figured after 2 yrs that we could all start working together for a prosperous business. I guess I was wrong. This isn't my first airline and after working at my fav (ATA) go down, I just wanted to continue doing what I love without the political BS. Hey I know there is a lot of blame out there and F9 has had to give up a lot. We have too.. aka our christmas bonus but at the end of the day I'm still employed and thankful for that. I'm not aware of any RAH guy not allowing a F9 pilot a ride, if I was working in the cabin and they were denied, it wouldn't fly with me. The front end better have a darn good reason or they will hear it from me. I commute and that's not good karma no matter who it is...
Please explain to me "flamebait?"

 

FAPA still exists and the FAPA lanyards are a show of FRONTIER PILOT solidarity. Soon enough Frontier Airlines will be seperated and possibly once again be represented by FAPA.

Who is republic airways? Didn't they merge with Northwest back in the 80's?

 

Now that is funny... They are the company that has been financing Frontier for a couple of years... Truely I hope they can separate and be profitable again... Hate seeing airlines go under...

 

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do talk to quite a few chq jumpseaters in and out of sdf. Why in the H-E double hockey sticks should a person take off their UNION lanyard? You are a creep in suggesting this. This F9 captain IS a true blue idiot and I would LOVE to have him on our j/s so that I could tell him what a highschooler, scratch that, first grader he is!

 

The same could be said about Republic if they actually had to market and sell their own seats.

 

I think I speak for all other professional aviators when I say, who cares about what Lanyard you wear, who cares if FAPA exists or not and who cares if Frontier spins away from RAH or not. What does matter is common decency and acting as a professional to your fellow pilots no matter who they fly for. Frontier crews have always been known to be a friendly, welcoming bunch. Don't let that reputation slip away because of misplaced frustration.

 

Hmmm, I guess they don't market their seats as a FFD.

 

Republic does market and sell their own seats.

They do it through their Frontier subsidiary.

And they do it at a subpar level.