Subodh is a puppet. You are not negotiating with Subodh. You are negotiating with United. They are the ones who want the elder statesmen gone.

Do elaborate.

The emails. They are unprofessional. The opposite of professional. As in they are an overt attempt to keep out new hires. As I have stated I believe the only chance we have at increased QOL or even survival is to do all we can to bring new hires IN. The Union’s belief that if we stop bringing in new hires the company will be willing to negotiate could not be further from the truth. This only incentivizes United to cut XJT loose.

Nope. They only call out Subodh for being unprofessional and lying to the pilot group. They speak the truth to the QOL on the line and the underhanded tactics management is willing to go to in order to shirk their responsibilities with Letter 2.

Subodh is just unhappy he is unable to play his little games as he has at all the other little ratthole carriers he's worked at before. He's truly a hack.

I don't think the union's going to have to do anything to stop new hires from coming in.

We are probably still at a net loss for the year. And you don't traditionally make up as much training backlog during the holidays.

As I hear it, the hiring sort of peaked with the 175 announcement but has gone back down because guess what: the information about this place is out there.

The simple fact is that this place is chaos, and there are better places to work.

Do this for me: name a regional that is hiring all the pilots they need that doesn't have a flow to a major carrier.

Maybe Skywest, but I don't think that will last.

Heck, even places with flows to LCCs aren't getting enough applicants.

Go ahead and shut it down. The other United Express carriers are dumpster fires also. The regional whipsaw game is over. The market has changed.

Pay us better or shut it down. We have lots of options now.

Accountant’s don’t fly airplanes. The numbers have changed. Time to pay up.

I used to think you were a pretty reasonable guy, but if you don’t think the pilots at xjt deserve a raise, then whatever your agenda is has certainly blinded you.

If you want a bunch of guys on the list behind you, any improvements xjt makes go towards fulfilling that goal

I think the pilots deserve a raise. I just think the way they are going about it is all wrong. I’m trying to play devil’s advocate. What I don’t believe is that we are in any position to play hard ball.

The only real advantage we have is that United can’t afford to have a substantial number of its regional pilots scattered out among other carriers.

At the end of the day United is probably about to give us a new carrot. Our contract will not improve substantially any time soon. There may be some minor changes.

Maybe we should start a poll. If there were one thing about the contract you would change, what would it be?

90% would want another $500 per month. Proving they don’t care about their QOL one bit. It’s the old saying, money doesn’t buy happiness.

And that’s probably about what we will get. Then next summer when we are yet again under staffed this cycle repeats itself. You can’t really make a miserable being happy. You feed it, throw it a bone now and then, but it’s always going to growl at the neighbors.

I was previously with the DL side of the XJT operation and I am very glad I am not in your sheet show now. For a bit things kinda sorta looked better for the friends I left behind.

Then Subodh. Wow.

Subodh was the worst news in the world. His involvement in the operation speaks volumes about the future of XJT.

I really can't blame the union for their tactics and tenor. There really is nothing to lose.