wmuflyguy
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90's at USAirwmu, DL and US don't have 90 seaters flying for them at the express carriers...? Are they flying the 76 seat CRJ900s?
76 seats at NWA and DL
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90's at USAirwmu, DL and US don't have 90 seaters flying for them at the express carriers...? Are they flying the 76 seat CRJ900s?
I hope your right......But what happens, oil at 130-140, with 500+ CAL furloughs and a looming bankruptcy. Will ALPA fold to save the senior guys their job. Or will we finally step up to the plate and say NO MORE freaking outsourcing!!!!!!
I\ We have a lot of silver spooners from Express that have had it good their entire career so far. They are wettin' their jockeys over the rumors of furloughs. That is a mindset that is shamefully ignorant.
This is ridiculous. Does he think that the new applicants would rather go to a regional airline and fly a 30-50 seat turboprop for $50 an hour--or worse yet--a 70+ seat turboprop for $50 an hour, rather than the state-of-the-art E170/190?I was with a CAL captain the other day and was suprised by what he said about this. His spin was that we would have to outsource this flying mainly because of the other airlines period. 1) the company would not get the cost savings in labor cost so we would be at a disadvantage to the other network carriers. No surprise there. 2) We wouldn't get the quality of applicants. He felt people wouldn't leave the military or there current regional to be a fo on 170 or 190 or any other smaller plane. We also talked about the Q400 or any larger future possibility and his argument was still the same. Are people going to want to come to CAL to be a Q400 fo or a MD80/DC9 fo at delta/NW or a 737/airbus fo at united or southwest. I came from a dash8-200 and said I would have still came because of the opportunity of other things, but he thinks no one will come.
I hope your right......But what happens, oil at 130-140, with 500+ CAL furloughs and a looming bankruptcy. Will ALPA fold to save the senior guys their job. Or will we finally step up to the plate and say NO MORE freaking outsourcing!!!!!!