Pinnacle
#532
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2012
Posts: 206
Your exactly right. I voted no on our contract but 70 something percent did. The cycles got to stop somewhere. I will still be shocked if RAH can even staff their AA flying. We as an entire regional group need to call mainlines bluff. They know deep down that we have all the leverage but until someone stands up to them they'll continue pushing the race to the bottom.
#533
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Joined APC: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,648
I hear ya man. I'm all for standing up and unity and crap. But that ship has sailed. You don't even see it in the major ranks. I just ask, we are not different than any other regional carrier. We are all here to do the same job and move on and provide for our families. Don't bash and swipe a broad brush at a group of pilots. Isn't that the first bluff in this game?
#534
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Joined APC: Aug 2009
Posts: 841
I'm curious to know what would have made you guys vote no? Given the same scenerio of go belly up or bend over, how far would you guys bend over? Now I understand everyones situation is different and some of you have families and so on, so I can't judge. My lifestyle would personally make a no vote easy, but that's irrelevant. How much are we as a group willing to give up?
#535
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Posts: 11,989
I'm curious to know what would have made you guys vote no? Given the same scenerio of go belly up or bend over, how far would you guys bend over? Now I understand everyones situation is different and some of you have families and so on, so I can't judge. My lifestyle would personally make a no vote easy, but that's irrelevant. How much are we as a group willing to give up?
Oh, wait a minute, that's a cow.
#536
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
Position: 320
Posts: 709
I'm curious to know what would have made you guys vote no? Given the same scenerio of go belly up or bend over, how far would you guys bend over? Now I understand everyones situation is different and some of you have families and so on, so I can't judge. My lifestyle would personally make a no vote easy, but that's irrelevant. How much are we as a group willing to give up?
#537
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,898
flysooner does have a point. Remember, the threat from Delta was that the entire 9E operation would winddown with one year, and that they have other carriers selected for that flying. There are two things wrong with this. One, you cannot take nearly 200 airplanes out of the DCI system in one year or less. Their threat would be more credible if they gave a longer time specification. But one year is unrealistic, and looking at past history with Comair, a slow dismantling is what would need to happen to remove a huge airplane fleet. And two, where do they think they would get 2,700 pilots in one year to replace these jets at the new company? Maybe 500-700 junior guys will follow the planes, but I have a had time believing RJ Captains will follow the planes to be back on reserve as FO at the new company. Simply put, with the ATP rule going into affect 3 months, there just wouldn't be enough people coming through the pipelines to staff over 180 airplanes in that timeframe. Therefore, it was a bluff. Realistically speaking they could not have done what they were claiming to do in that timeframe.
#538
flysooner does have a point. Remember, the threat from Delta was that the entire 9E operation would winddown with one year, and that they have other carriers selected for that flying. There are two things wrong with this. One, you cannot take nearly 200 airplanes out of the DCI system in one year or less. Their threat would be more credible if they gave a longer time specification. But one year is unrealistic, and looking at past history with Comair, a slow dismantling is what would need to happen to remove a huge airplane fleet. And two, where do they think they would get 2,700 pilots in one year to replace these jets at the new company? Maybe 500-700 junior guys will follow the planes, but I have a had time believing RJ Captains will follow the planes to be back on reserve as FO at the new company. Simply put, with the ATP rule going into affect 3 months, there just wouldn't be enough people coming through the pipelines to staff over 180 airplanes in that timeframe. Therefore, it was a bluff. Realistically speaking they could not have done what they were claiming to do in that timeframe.
#539
Bracing for Fallacies
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: In favor of good things, not in favor of bad things
Posts: 3,543
Weren't other DCI carriers hiring at a steady clip until the vote took place and Pinnacle would survive? I thought at that point, the hiring suddenly and simultaneously stopped. It seems to me other places were staffing up to be ready for the fall out.
#540
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,898
Do you really think other regionals will attract ATP-rated 1,500+ hr pilots to fly for $23k a year? And even if they do, you think they will get enough of these applicants to fill RJ FO seats?
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