In my opinion, yes, there's a big difference. The ALPA leadership might say something different. I'm just giving you my opinion. But really, that's the whole point, because as I said, everyone will have a different opinion about how a "fair" integration would have to be set up.
PCL_128 said:
"Apartheid?" Melodramatic much? There's nothing shocking about the revelation that regionals are different from mainline carriers. You have no reasonable career expectations of ever flying anything bigger than a 76-seat jet at your carrier. So, the idea that you should get the same sort of integration that a guy at another mainline carrier that already has widebody equipment would get is just ridiculous.
Like I said, there are many different kinds of fences. What I proposed is a fence that would only drop if furloughs took place. Under normal circumstances, the fence would stand and the mainline pilots wouldn't be able to bump you down with a bid into the regional equipment.
PCL_128 said:
You can live in denial if you so choose, but everyone living in the real world knows that you have no career expectations of flying anything bigger than an RJ. When you choose to make a career out of a feeder carrier, you give control of your career expectations to the people that control the code that you fly: the mainline pilots. If you don't like that, you can always try to get a job at a mainline carrier like everyone else.
Under the scenario I proposed, the fences would drop with furloughs, so seniority would dictate that they would be displaced to whatever position they bid and could hold. That would likely be the left seat, and it would be at whatever rate their YOS dictated. But like I said, that's just my idea of a good system.
What you don't seem to understand is that you don't have any protection over your job right now at all. You fly for a feeder carrier, so your flying is subject to RFP, as we've seen over and over again. A one-list gives you at least some semblance of job protection. With your seniority, even being stapled to the bottom of the mainline list wouldn't put you at any risk of a furlough or even a displacement to the right seat. The ones that would be at risk would be the more junior pilots, but the risk would be worth it to end the whipsaw. Apparently you're too blind to see that.
And your and your BJ buddy danno have done nothing to contribute to it but to file a frivilous lawsuit, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to hard dues paying members, and in the end, the only winner was your **censored** lawyer!
So is messing with ASA pilots that fly the ATR and have an ugly older girlfriend!
Since you and the rest of your BJ buddies at the rjdc have dui's or no college, you're stuck in the regionals....Get used to it sport!
Did you know that ATR pilots that sue their union trying to have at a seniority snag from their legacy carrier that they fly feed for are branded as "scabs?"
Bumping you out of your seat, just like you tried to do to thousands of Delta pilots, of course!
Just sue them JB, that seemed to work real well the first time around!
