Goodbye ASA!!!

[JoeMerchant]

I counted JB as a friend until he helped put the knife in my back... thank God I got on with American soon after and was free of the tangled web they weaved.... but in a nutshell, while I agree with some of what JB says, in the end, he's been part of the problem, and not the solution regarding ALPA/regionals and the mainline.

How has that American job worked out for you? You wanted the ASA pilots to become furlough fodder for the Delta pilots.....Many of us are glad you didn't get your way....How long have you been furloughed now from American?

 

[HA25]

..How long have you been furloughed now from American?

too long old friend... too long.. But glad to hear things are going well at the regionals... hiring your low time girls and boys, training them for that left seat in the fancy CRJ... so they can fly more mainline pax to destinations hitherto flown to by the mainline.... yep, at this rate, It'll be another 9 years before American needs meh... You see John, what you never got was that it's a zero sum game... when you get more RJ's we get less Boeings and Airbuses... and the net result is more lower paying jobs for our "profession".

Good on you.

 

[PCL_128]

I counted JB as a friend until he helped put the knife in my back...

What exactly did he do?

 

[HA25]

What exactly did he do?

out of respect for him, and the fact that this is now over 10 years old.. I'll send you a PM about it.

 

[crj567]

out of respect for him, and the fact that this is now over 10 years old.. I'll send you a PM about it.

"Respect for him?" The guy is a complete RJDC freakshow! Joe is no one's friend-his job in life is to bash pretty much everything union and give no alternatives! The RJDC is dead as "Hanson's" career-and joemerchant never got the memo!!!!

-The damn thing died like 8 years ago-wake up toolster!

 

[HA25]

"Respect for him?" The guy is a complete RJDC freakshow! Joe is no one's friend-his job in life is to bash pretty much everything union and give no alternatives! The RJDC is dead as "Hanson's" career-and joemerchant never got the memo!!!!

-The damn thing died like 8 years ago-wake up toolster!

While I agree, that doesn't seem to have panned out into the outcome I had hopped... last I checked, the RJ operators hired 90% of the pilots out there over the pasts 8 years while the mainline hired a smattering, most of whom are back on the street today. Face it, John won.. ASA is 3X it's size when I joined them in 97... AMR (factoring out the TWA merger) is 10% smaller. I would venture to guess the DAL/NWA combined company is also a fraction of what DAL and MWA alone were back in the late 90's.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

I am sure that one of those people is the other Andrew that works for the Feds in SLC that was an ASA pilot.

Best of luck!

 

[enuffalready]

too long old friend... too long.. But glad to hear things are going well at the regionals... hiring your low time girls and boys, training them for that left seat in the fancy CRJ... so they can fly more mainline pax to destinations hitherto flown to by the mainline.... yep, at this rate, It'll be another 9 years before American needs meh... You see John, what you never got was that it's a zero sum game... when you get more RJ's we get less Boeings and Airbuses... and the net result is more lower paying jobs for our "profession".

Good on you.

Like JB or not, there are some of us that plan on staying at ASA. I too will fight for bigger aircraft and pay at my airline at your expense if necessary. It never ceases to amaze me when 'major' guys fight for scope and we are all supposed to cheer, but when we fight for 90 seaters or more 70's we are told to be thankful for what we have.. next time I will just say 'thank ya massa'

I know the risk i take at ASA. I know we exist at the discretion of Delta and could be shut down on a whim. I will take that risk and if we close, then so be it. You took a risk when you left ASA for a 'major'. I had friends go to airtran 7-8 years ago because the wanted to stay in atlanta. Those guys are all left seaters now making a decent pay check and don't have to commute anywhere. They knew the risk of going with airtran versus SW, FEDEX or Delta, etc and they took that risk. Airtran may be gone in 3 years and they accept that risk when they left ASA.

stop beotching about RJ's flying mainline routes and no new boeings etc, you made that choice all by your big boy self. The victim mentality of the majority of people in this country is astonishing..

 

[HA25]

Like JB or not, there are some of us that plan on staying at ASA. I too will fight for bigger aircraft and pay at my airline at your expense if necessary. It never ceases to amaze me when 'major' guys fight for scope and we are all supposed to cheer, but when we fight for 90 seaters or more 70's we are told to be thankful for what we have.. next time I will just say 'thank ya massa'

I know the risk i take at ASA. I know we exist at the discretion of Delta and could be shut down on a whim. I will take that risk and if we close, then so be it. You took a risk when you left ASA for a 'major'. I had friends go to airtran 7-8 years ago because the wanted to stay in atlanta. Those guys are all left seaters now making a decent pay check and don't have to commute anywhere. They knew the risk of going with airtran versus SW, FEDEX or Delta, etc and they took that risk. Airtran may be gone in 3 years and they accept that risk when they left ASA.

stop beotching about RJ's flying mainline routes and no new boeings etc, you made that choice all by your big boy self. The victim mentality of the majority of people in this country is astonishing..

And there you have it ladies and gentleman... THE PROBLEM with our profession.

Lowest bidder will always win!

Grats enuff... you won.. Since American, I've bounced from one low paying job to another, and all the same time you've been at the same low paying job.. you won.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

It doesn't matter how big the airplane is; the only thing that matters is how big is your paycheck and how much time do you get at home. We can all argue about stability, but that is a pretty useless argument to make with airlines.

The more jobs get converted from "mainline" to "regional," the more the wages decrease for the same job. Given the mission of the regionals, days at home can also decrease when this transition happens.

If you want to make the "I told you so" argument that the regionals have done better than the majors over the last 10 years, then you would have to ignore the paycheck and the days at home. It was only recently that ASA got 12 days off as a minimum...not sure on that BTW, but I believe it is correct. When I was at ASA, the lines I bid on had mostly 10 or 11 days off and the number of lines with more decreased sharply at 12 and up. Pay...you cannot compare them; Delta pilots make more as a whole by far.

So what are you trying to say I told you so about?