Ok well here's a thought.....go somewhere else!! Your going to make no friends here bad mouthing a pilot group. And I'm curious where have you obtained all your ultra industry knowledge?

He's not badmouthing the 9E pilot group, and he's really spot-on in his analysis.

Its the delivery that is somewhat lacking.

When 9E pilots really get ****ed off and start a safety campaign on their own initiative en masse, you'll likely see movement because of the pressure it would place on management. Until the pilot group unifies in that manner (and that's nothing the MEC can suggest) as NWA and ASA did, don't expect much to change.

You wanna know what would make every regional come to a crawl in any given day? PUT THE CELL PHONES DOWN.

So VERY TRUE!!!!! Nothing like sorting it out over ACARS.

I'm not bad mouthing any pilot group. I think the 9E pilot group is great bunch of men and women. They will not settle for anything less than industry a leading contract.

My ultra industry knowledge(), comes from doing lots of reading and research. Not believing one single source, but gathering information from many sources, and making my own conclusion.

dude..... my conclusion is that you need another drink.

If we want a contract we as pilots (not the Union) need to give this company the ontime performance and completion factor they deserve. And believe me it is not hard to do. The amount of incompetence in this operation (ramp,Dispatch,MEL documentation,Load numbers,etc)gives a pilot plenty of opportunities to sit on his/her hands for a couple of minutes until the flight is delayed. I have less than a 50% ontime performance over the past 4 months. I do not do anything illegal, against company policy or FAR's to get that. If all pilots did that our management would cave in a month. Remember that the only way our stock price goes up is if we get more airplanes. There is more Delta flying down the pipe that management wants, so they can not afford any drop off in performance until an Air Seervice Agreement for more airplanes is signed.

So if we want a contract all Pinnacle pilots are going to need to deceide they have had enough and let the flights be delayed, stop using your cell phone to fix there screw ups, don't ACARs or talk to Ops unless you are parked in the Deice pad, and fly at LRC when possible( to save fuel).

Any other suggestions?

"SHOULD I PUT MY STUFF IN THERE??"" you obviously already work here since you know so much about our procedures. your just on here trying to get something going but you are going about it the wrong way. after reading all these posts, plus the ones where you talk about msp vacancies, i have concluded that you do work here. so acting like you don't and then knowing all of our procedures. and not only do you know procedures you are quoting stuff from our fom.. you aren't to bright are you?

I think you flew with me last week.

So there are a few of us on this board that have had enough of the Pinnacle B.S. why do so many of our colleague's continue to work hard for this company?? And what can we do about it

Taxi Slow,do not use cell phone, do not call to get numbers corrected until you are in the penalty box (if then), do not call ops to get marshalled in, do not push back with a broken headset unless complying with FOM, do not have MEL added to release while you are taxing out,fly LRC whenever possible, do not fix nuisance messages by pulling circuit breakers on your own, do not accept short cuts on your route of flight, do not take the time to explain to the dispatcher why we need an alternate because they do not know how to read a TAF(that one happened last week)
Please note these suggestions do not require any FAR's or company policies broken.

Any other suggestions for our fellow Pinnacle pilots???