The irony really strikes me here...
This entire thread, like so many others, is really pretty useless. In the first post, afellowaviator says, if I may paraphrase, SLC - great facilities, nice people, but gee, world of flightinfo.com, why on earth did I get the "cold shoulder" from the people in the crew lounge?
Hmmm...well, as much as I don't agree with it, if you walk into _any_ crew room with a "These people should be thankful for what I did at Comair - hell, we saved the d a m n industry - I can't BELIEVE they're not KISSING the ground that we walk on!" type of attitude, I don't care what airline it is, I really don't care to talk to that kind of person. Would anybody?
And whomever talked about the midwest "nod" - that's true - I wasn't aware it was different out West.
Afellowaviator and many other Comair folk are quick to criticize -- let me offer this up to everyone. I worked for an ALPA airline at the time of the Comair strike, my money went to support you and if it came to that again, I'd mail the check in gladly, as I would have for Mesaba or anyone else -- but while it might seem simplistic, WHY do you think that all of this outsourcing is happening? Do you really believe that any company out there would really say "Yep, I think we're going to have 5 or 6 regionals all flying for us - that's the right way to do things." Nope - it is an indirect result of the Comair strike. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before, but it chaps me a little bit when you guys are so quick to complain about "Well, we set the bar so high, why doesn't everyone bow down to us?" If I hear the phrase "Comair was the only airline that had the balls to ............", I'm going to hurl into the next Deltamatic terminal that I come across. WE GET IT. That was, if memory serves, almost THREE years ago. You guys treat it like you were the only airline that ever went on strike, and that you share absolutely no blame for what DCI has become. You can't turn a blind eye to that - you set wages high and believe me, I thank you for that.
Honestly, though, I'd be willing to wager that a vast majority of the flight crewmembers out there are probably more worried about themselves, and couldn't give a darn about you or your crew - nobody said anything rude, ddi they? So, Afellowaviator, next time you waltz into a west coast crew lounge, I wouldn't be so shocked that people aren't so quick to come right up and shake your hand.
Based on your previous posts on this board, you haven't really been the modicum of a person that I'd like to go up and talk to -- so who knows, maybe there's a disproportionate number of Skywest crews who frequent this board, and they put two and two together and figured out who you were. YOU NEVER KNOW.
-brew3
