5 year Upgrades at Eagle (and dropping)

[stlflyguy]

If you visit the AEPA site, there's evidently some litigation going on...

 

[DGdaPilot]

haha. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[pipejockey]

Pipe jockey why all the hate towards Eagle? Are you generally this negative with everything in life? Is it hard for you to be happy about things that don't directly involve you? In rough times it is nice to hear about movement that is going on regardless of how or why. By late spring Eagle will have a 08/05 DOH captain. (yes the flow plan is out) That is great considering upgrades use to be 9-10 years. There will be 28/29 year olds sitting in the left seat which at Eagle is pretty darn good. Eagle will be losing another 35 captains in Jan to AA and another 40 or so in Feb and that will continue month by month until the rest of the 240 or so are sucked up. I don't know who you are or have ever seen a post by you, but you come off as someone who was wronged by eagle at one point in time.

NEXT!!

Let me make clear that I hate ALL regional airlines. They do nothing but take advantage of every pilot that works for them. 90% of regional pilots should be major airline pilots! regionals were created to feed mainline from small outstations with turboprops. When small jets showed up, the pilots ended being regional pilots. Management has used the regional airline to destroy our profession. And some of you talk about these regionals like they are so awesome and a great career to have. You all deserve better than to rot at a regional airline for the rest of your career. There is no hiring boom on the horizon, maybe a strong spurt but that is it! There will never be enough Major jobs for all the regional pilots out there. Regionals do 53% of the flying these days.

I would just like to one day hear the regional pilots say they are mad as hell and arent going to take it anymore. Some kind of grass roots effort to cripple the regional industry until ALL are earning a livable wage. Not just 18 year regional captains. And if you are an 18 year regional captain, you obviously will be with a regional the rest of your life. Management has saved billions by having the regionals do most of the flying in the US these days, it's high time the regional pilots take some of that back to the tune of 60% of mainline pay rates! This aint spring break kids? These are real airline pilot jobs and should be paid at real airline pilot rates. You all are just too damn*ed happy about getting pis*ed on!

 

[BoilerUP]

Let me make clear that I hate ALL regional airlines. They do nothing but take advantage of every pilot that works for them. 90% of regional pilots should be major airline pilots! regionals were created to feed mainline from small outstations with turboprops. When small jets showed up, the pilots ended being regional pilots. Management has used the regional airline to destroy our profession. And some of you talk about these regionals like they are so awesome and a great career to have. You all deserve better than to rot at a regional airline for the rest of your career. There is no hiring boom on the horizon, maybe a strong spurt but that is it! There will never be enough Major jobs for all the regional pilots out there. Regionals do 53% of the flying these days.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but didn't your profile used to show that, at some point, you drove a CRJ?

 

[pipejockey]

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but didn't your profile used to show that, at some point, you drove a CRJ?

Of course! I'm not one of those pompous as* military guys that seem to be above demeaning themselves by having to fly an rj. But what is your point Boiler? We all have to fly rj's and I have absolutely no qualms with rj's its the regional airline entity that I despise!! They have been a disaster to our profession. Instead of flying these routes as a major airline pilot on a mainline pilots seniority list, these rj guys are shat on and how do they respond? By defending their pathetic little regional carriers, they give tacit approval to the status quo.

So I will say this once again, and hopefully people will understand me. I have nothing against rj's or the folks that fly them. I have EVERYTHING against the COMPANIES that operate them and the piece of sh*t management teams that want to turn our whole industry into a regional airline. It's time to end this non sense of the haves(major airline pilots) and the have nots (regional airline pilots). And it makes me sick to hear these little punks come to the defense of their puke scumbag regional airline. You all deserve better.