I'll concede that some of the CHQ pilots voted in an attempt to kill the alter-ego carrier threat. But don't tell me for one second that the issue of ratifying the contract would aid in growth over other Connection carriers, never came up.... Since you are in year 7 you were most likely already a Cpt. by then and didn't pay attention to the growth side of the equation as much. But rest assured it was there, and brought up in atleast one of the roadshows.
I highly doubt that my buddy would lie about what was said when he called me. And he called my during the road show. Verbatim he told me what he had just heard. He was an FO and was very junior, so for him the thought of accelerated growth and quicker upgrades is what he was more focused on.
And after seven years there I would hope you'd have some decent months of schedule. But we had that and more at Comair until our contract was ripped apart. You may think you had it good but trust me it would have been alot better if you all could have one upped us. And thats all we at Comair wanted was for another carrier to get our +1%... Instead everyone got -1% and dragged us backwards.
"81 hour lines. No junior manning, no real ability to be extended. No hot reserve. Pay isn't that much different from anyone else" We were used to 90+ hr lines with appr. 16 days off, 100% deadhead pay, never got junior manned. And yes the pay was greater. As an FO I was around $41/hr in year 3/4...Captains were topping out around $120 plus 25% for being a check airman.. I know it's only a few dollars here and there, especially in the FO side, but it should have kept going up... NOT BACK DOWN...
And of course I'll believe what I want to because life got a whole bunch worse after your contract was ratified, maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not.
And you'll keep believing that you all got the best you could have,, given 9?11 yadda yadda yadda...
