Yeh, part of the problem is, this day and age with all the SJS no one really cares what a scab is anymore... Everyone just wants their jet.. The airlines as a whole are a lot less unified than they once were, at least that's what I've been told by guys who were at Pan Am, Eastern, etc.. etc..
The GoJet guys arn't even as bad as the scabs in the old days.. I mean, they pulled some garbage, but they never crossed any picket line, etc.. Is what they did right? Eh, I wouldn't have done it..
PFTing guys are just getting their tickets punched in a different manner.. I mean, lots of guys today, don't spend years instructing, even if you did it the "old fashion way"..
You don't have to "work" for anything anymore, all you have to do is have the $$ and that is part of the problem..
We all get on here and bash each other and yadda yadda and that does us no good either.. It's funny, I was talking to some 500 hour wonder FO who is sitting right seat in a big fancy jet, talk down to me because I fly the Jetstream with no automation and yadda yadda.. Yeh, some of us still fly the plane..
I get so sick and tired of some of the garbarge I see on this site.. There are a bunch of great guys on here, however, I think there are a bunch more whiney little boys who talk big talk but wouldn't even THINK about sacking it up in person..
The computer gives us all a great place to hide behind..
I had no idea what the GoJets thing was all about when I got into the airlines and I'd bet that 90% of the industry still has no idea what or who GoJets is, other than those closely related to it and the Flight Infoers.. Will it make a difference? Who knows.. It's sorta like anything else.. I mean, compare it to Hurricane Katrina... Who cares about that anymore? Very few, unless you were directly effected.. That's how our society works.. Very short memory..
I've seen how real scabs, those who cross a picket line, are treated, and that is one thing I will never ever be. This day and age the word scab has lost its meaning..
The airlines have been taken over by young, greedy, spoiled children.. "Give it to me, now.." types.. I would dare say 75% of us, who have family in the airlines didn't work half as hard as they did to get where we are today..
It's sad really..
Eh, that was one heck of a ramble.. I'm sleepy..