An Airline is Buying RegionsAir

[CopilotDoug]

mesa marketing guy

How could you tell? Was he wearing a blue liesure suit and a rubber band in his pony tail?

 

[rjacobs]

OK I stand corrected 4 saabs, the rest stays the same except 1 to fly and 3 to butcher parts from. TSA would never buy regions because uncle hulie wants an all jet fleet, even if it means pissing off your workers, furloughing, displacing captains, parking airplanes. Even with a fair integration into Mesa seniority list, they could put a fence up so that regions guys could never fly any of the jets, limited to props. AA did it with TWA guys, TWA did it to Ozark guys, im sure lots of others mergers have created these fences as well.

 

[CopilotDoug]

Even with a fair integration into Mesa seniority list, they could put a fence up so that regions guys could never fly any of the jets...

JO will get what he needs, regardless of any ALPA endorsed contract. The Regions teamsters are already negotiating payscales for the jets.

 

[CopilotDoug]

Double Post

 

[CopilotDoug]

Teamsters-Management Negotiations

It sounds like this last meeting went well. The two sides are working on hammering out numbers for 76-seat pay. It looks like Regions pilot will be kept on a seperate certificate, which kind of stinks. But it will be a deffinite improvement over first year FO pay of $17/hr. It looks like the new horizon is finally near for Regions pilots in terms of better equipment/pay.

 

[Smiliner]

This sucks! So, Regions is just being bought to create another GoJet & Freedom Air? You guys and gals that are still there need to fight for an industry average (if not leading) contract before you're used as a whipsaw company.

 

[Tram]

FLUSSSSSSHHHHH.......


Ooohh did you hear it?? That is our careers going down the toilet...

I wouldn't mind a "fence" - I'd love to fly the Dash 8..

So how did the meetings really go?

Is there any end in sight or what?

 

[Way2Broke]

I just puked a little..... uke:

 

[Tram]

I still don't see why you care about regions soo much..

Weren't you only here for like, 2 months?

 

[CopilotDoug]

No matter what equipment wqill be flown in the end (think BIG CRJ) the end result is that Regions is will still be a REGIONAL. I don't care how you want to spin it, the QOL of ANY regional sucks donkey nuts. Any a-hole who says other wise is just that...an a-hole