It is clear that the offer is one that management would love us to take so that they could continue to try to rebuild this company on the pilots backs. I say rebuild, because we all know $hitfinger devastated our company, and it needs to be rebuilt. But that's not the pilots fault, and we should not have to pay for it. People say that there is no more money on the table. Well I say that the money should come from the customers. If we charge industry standard, management could pay us industry standard. We advertise our prices 32% below the competition. Well we all know how that is possible. We subsidize the travel of people that could afford to pay industry standard. But because we have cheep travel, the cheep will come to us for a bargain.
Deregulation killed the airlines, and it's ability to sustain a professional wage. Professionals that struggled to get the education and experience required to make our airline industry the best and safest in the world. Our industry is no longer what it use to be. The fractional industry revolutionized how people travel privately. It also is on the path to make the majors just one of two choices a fledgling aviator would choose as their ultimate destiny.
But Flops wants to lower that bar. Management wants to perpetuate the stagnation in pay that will undoubtedly lower the bar for other fractionals for years to come. To compete, the other fractionals will without a doubt have to lower their pay. Well, I will not be apart of scuttling this industry's chance of becoming a preferred destination for thousands of pilots careers. We have sacrificed enough.