Want to take it back??? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

[Hugh Johnson]

Letter sent

Guys, take action. If we're ever going to get change, now is the time. Public awareness is high right now. A little effort now may benefit us in the future.

You guys must be young. The same chest beating happened when AE crashed and it turned out the pilot has been fired from a previous carrier and lied on his application. That was 1996. That brought on the PRIA. Nothing has changed.

 

[DC8Driver]

Why is regional pay so low? Because ALPA eats their young..............Always have.

 

[cynic]

my last failure(and my first) was in 1998.. so

Yeah... it sounds like you suck.

 

[RobCat]

"Inevitably, this has made it more difficult for responsible regional/commuter airlines, with quality training and training facilities, respectable pay, safe scheduling practices, and good work rules to compete as they are unable to match bottom line costs. One can look no further than past Major-Regional relationships at United and Atlantic Coast Airlines, Delta and Comair, American and American Eagle, Continental and ExpressJet respectively to find examples of this Major vs. responsible regional carrier phenomena in action. A most recent and disturbing example of this is the plight of Midwest Airlines’ pilots whom have nearly all been released in order to outsource the majority of that flying to a regional carrier pilot group at significantly lower wages. It would be laughable to suggest that Midwest Airlines’ passengers are now being flown by crews with comparable levels of experience and knowledge under the current outsource agreement."

This was a very well written letter. Although the above paragraph is going to over shadow what your true intentions are. You are writing this to Washington Politicans, business men and lawyers, not a jury of your peers. Try to keep your personal emotions and comparisons out of it. Most if not all of the companies you mentioned started to bleed money, and were not flexible enough in there previous business models.

 

[j3tdr1v3r]

This was a very well written letter. Although the above paragraph is going to over shadow what your true intentions are. You are writing this to Washington Politicans, business men and lawyers, not a jury of your peers. Try to keep your personal emotions and comparisons out of it. Most if not all of the companies you mentioned started to bleed money, and were not flexible enough in there previous business models.

While I see your point, I think the authors point was that the above named carriers only started to "bleed money" as you put it, because they were all doing the responsible things and attempting to have a respectable contract when the other carriers came in and undercut them for the sake of undercutting them.

This, while saving the mainlines a few dollars in the short term, did NOTHING but degrade safety because in order to compete, and 'stop the bleeding' the respectable carriers had to begin cutting corners to in order to compete.

If the bottom dwellers were forced to abide by the standards that the respectable ones were voluntarily doing until a gun was held to their head, we would all be better off.