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erj-145mech said:If you can't live within your means, then you must consider a lifestyle or career change. GJ's didn't make you accept your job at the rate that you're at. I'd venture to say that GJ's wasn't around when you accepted your position.
TSA Pilot said:Also, as far as "having many furloughed TWA guys", I'm a member of the TWA message board (and my father was TWA) and there is only one that I know about that went over there and he is trying like hell to get out. He has posted about how much it sucks over there. So live in your misguided little world, and try to give off the illusion that "there are many furloughed mainline pilots taking the g0jet plunge.." Its just not true.
100LL... Again! said:Hmmm - if I was a GJ pilot I'd probably invite one of you fools to take a swing at me. That would be all I needed to finish of your career. Punching another pilot right there on the way to the airport. I think the FAA medical branch would have some serious doubts about your fitness for a first class medical after that.
Big talkers are big babies. You'd do nothing but spout off at the mouth and give dirty looks, and you know it.
fuelflow said:Didn't the TSA's union extend a substandard pilot contract to capture United Express flying from ACA? Aren't those guys all out of work now because they were underbid by both TSA and AWAC? And since when did boycotting pilot employment, except during a strike, ever work? Especially in STL which is chock full of able qualified ex-TWA/AA pilots who themselves have been hosed by ALPA and see TSA flying their old routes...ironically in AMR owned aircraft. Perhaps that is why there are so many ex- TWA/AA, Eagle, and ACA pilots at GJ.
You know the saying about those in glass houses..
SkyBoy1981 said:Way to act like an immature college fratboy. Feel better now? Don't you have some sort of fraternity drinking party to get to?
As far as GJ pilots are concerned...I'm not going to make a fool of myself when I see them. I am an adult, so I will act like one. On the same token, I have no desire to speak to or have any sort of conversation with them.
100LL... Again! said:My post was in response to the clown who said that there would be blood all over the shuttle bus if GJ pilots rode with them.
WOW, I was the Capt on this trip and let me say I dont like Gayjets pilots210FR8DOG said:those A$$clowns stay in the same hotel as us(TSA) in Jacksonville. the hotel van drivers used to try to keep us seperate so we wouldn't kick their a$$ and get blood all in the van. However, one of our captains told us the other day that they were already on the way to the airport and the van driver turned around to go back for a Gayjets crew that was late showing up for the van. That is absolute BS. Sorry bunch of a$$punchers.
rtmcfi said:I am not self righteous, just self respecting. I respect the sacrifices of those that came before me, and the sacrifices of my peers. I feel nothing but contempt for those that undue others hard work. I feel contempt for those that are undercutting you, unless you are hojets trash, or an A lister.
I never said you have to. However, It would be nice to have some solidarity. Feel free to sit on the sidelines passively and watch whats left of this career run aground. Hopefully there will be enough people that have a pair and actively do what little they can to stop this cancer.
(I seriously doubt it. Management needs to cut costs (look at ASA and Comair) and will continue to do so. All this talk about holding the line is a bunch of BS given the current state of the airline industry.)
Like any situation there are many truths. One undeniable truth, is that hojets is hurting every pilot involved in this industry. While they are blind to it, the hojets pilots are hurting themselves as well.
(- I seriously doubt this. I believe they have become the scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the regionals. Every regional will act to self-preserve and management will act accordingly. If one regional takes pay cuts everyone else will fall in line in order to keep flying.)
Hojets pilots made their bed. They can sleep uncomfortably in it. I choose not to hug them and accept them.
If the ends justify the means............
(Did anyone else catch what this person is saying?)
(If the "end justifies the means". Do you know what you are talking about? This would never hold up in a court of law that any action you do is justified to get to an end. I can just see you in front of the judge telling him your actions were justified because it meant an end that "you" determined was proper..)
(Or....whatever means you've done be it good or evil, it's still affects the end. That the means and the ends are interrelated, so that the fact that you've done "bad" things to achieve your goal, the "end" you've reached is also dirty and evil... even if it's for the good of the many.. and somehow it will have a negative effect. And you'll suffer the consequences.)
(These types of actions and attitudes hurt the industry and the integrity of the pilot group more than any other action. People look up to this industry. Pilots are there to keep them and their loved ones "safe". When they hear about these kind of actions and attitudes it hurts the industry.)
Of the top of my head, Air Wisconsin. A reputable carrier with good people that worked hard to improve their, and through association, all other regional pilots lot in life. They were undercut, and had their lives uprooted due in no small part to the thankless pukes at hojets. At the time hojets was hatching, there were other airlines hiring as well. ASA, SkyWest, COEX, Horizon, I'm sure there were others......
(Air Wisconsin was not undercut. UAL was looking to cut costs and they happened to be the second most expensive (in regards to costs) regional behind American Eagle.)
(When I said good jobs I did not mean another regional at $18,000 dollars a year. Many pilots cannot go back to that kind of pay...They have put too much into this job and have too many expenses to do that. Management knows there are very few good jobs and will force continuing cuts onto the pilot group until people stop showing up for those "good" $18,000 a year jobs.)
Love it or leave it huh? I suppose I should be embracing and accepting those that damage the career I have chosen.
There is not a good enough reason they could possibly provide, short of a gun being held to their head.
(Again- there you go hurting the industry again.)
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck........
I'm not sure, as I don't work there, and was not privy to all that transpired. What I do know, is this: if HK couldn't staff his new low-ball, scumbag outfit, he would have been forced to deal with those at TSA that are attempting to improve the lives of regional pilots.
100LL... Again! said:My post was in response to the clown who said that there would be blood all over the shuttle bus if GJ pilots rode with them.
waterski said:WOW, I was the Capt on this trip and let me say I dont like Gayjets pilots
but they werent late. We had a :40 van and they had a :50 .The van driver was running late. The Holiday Inn In JAX has vans on demand and when times are this close someone get the shaft.
Just my 2 cents
210FR8DOG said:Sorry, I guess I misunderstood the story. Or maybe it really did happen to a different crew. We take the same vans out of there every day. It's just so easy to get pissed first and then ask questions later when it comes to these at gayjets.
heph224 said:Just read that a go-jets pilot was hired by UPS. I hope to god that it's not true.