Your airline pilot friend does though. You XJT guys are so funny, you are so proud to work there. Who died and made ExpressJet lord over all airlines?

 

No one died and made expressjet anything. People here take pride in our company because unlike many other companies we are treated well and most people love working here. Honestly is being proud about where you work a bad thing? You say that like you are making fun of people for it. Maybe someday when you get a job flying you will understand and appreciate working for a good company. You dont work here and constantly talk down about XJT, pretty lame if you ask me. Hopefully you will someday understand that taking pride in a company and your job is the only thing that will ever turn this industry around. When you get out of flight school and get a job somewhere maybe you will further understand. Fly safe and remember study hard!!

 

I believe the real question should be why did all the others decline. What's your issue with a company that treats its employees above standards?

 

When you start working for an airline, you too will feel a sense of pride. Then again with that sh!tty attitude of yours, CFI might be a permanent title.

 

I don't have an issue with XJT, far from it. There's a lot of XJT sunshine blowing over here and I like to debate it, that is all.

From what I hear, it is a good company, and certainly treats employees with respect. That's pretty admirable. However keep in mind, they've lost flying doing so.

I do work for an airline, I'm not sure why you guys think I'm "just" a CFI (as if there's anything wrong with that). Is it because I don't brag to the APC world that I'm a pilot for [insert regional airline] under my "name"? Get over yourselves.

 

He harasses everybody....and she is hot....!

 

I apoligize for my XJET coworkers posting cocky, foolish statements. I believe fosters works for a certain east coast regional who flies in and out of Philly. Don't bash foster's, he just represents the "glass half-empty" kinda guy, and with whats happened at his regional in the last two years, I can't blame him. There are a lot of uncertainties here at XJET, and we don't really know whats gonna happen. What we do know, is that our management refuses to operate for less than a 10% profit margin, and we have lost multiple RFP's because of it. While our branded flying is not identical to FlyI, history is not on our side. It has been said that we have talked to WN to see what cities they didn't care too much about. That way when we start going there they won't squash us like bugs. We have ticketing in place for the branded flying, we have the staff in place, and unfortunately they have decided on the paint scheme. We have our own paint shop, so painting the planes will not cost much. We will have 205 airplanes operating for CAL for at least another two or three years, after that who knows? A lot of guys here are hopeful because they need to be. What good does it do to worry about what we can't control. It does not hurt to have a contingency plan, but everyone chooses their jobs for personal reasons, and not all of us can understand those. I hope that many of our pilots do not think they are better than others, but we are proud of our contract, and we hope that other regionals will follow suit and demand the pay and work rules that our profession deserves. This has turned into a blue-collar job and it clearly is not. We don't hate other pilots, we hate that they willingly work for crap pay and work rules. No pilot should ever have to sleep in their plane, or not get paid for xtra time they spend in the airplane. We want everyone to have a contract with pay and work rules like ours and Air Whiskey. Don't fly for crap pay and work rules. And if their are any CHQ pilots reading, welcome to IAH. I will shake your hand and welcome you. Please start fighting now for a better contract. Better pay for the 70 seaters(as your 50 seat is close to ours), and better work rules. ExpressJet pilots are taking a new road, and we are excited at the opportunities that lie ahead. We hope that we may be able to lead the way to escape the strangle hold that Legacy management has on Regional pilots. Rant over.

 

Pretty good rant. Now if all the morons on our own crackpipe thought like you, me, and a few others, it would be amazing.

But then we would only have threads consisting of CA's vs. FO's.

 

Wait a minute. More importantly than the topic of this thread..... Who is hot? I'm 100% serious. I want to know this instant. Who is hot?

 

Well put, Johnso29.

And from someone whose flown both the CRJ and ERJ, IMHO the ERJ wins hands down. Both in comfort and performance. My only real qualm is that POS Honeywell avionics package. Flew a 4 day trip, and got the Honeywell Shuffle on every approach. Never had a problem like that in the CRJ.