HA25
Tokyo Tokyo!
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- Dec 16, 2001
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It doesn't matter how big the airplane is; the only thing that matters is how big is your paycheck and how much time do you get at home. We can all argue about stability, but that is a pretty useless argument to make with airlines.
The more jobs get converted from "mainline" to "regional," the more the wages decrease for the same job. Given the mission of the regionals, days at home can also decrease when this transition happens.
If you want to make the "I told you so" argument that the regionals have done better than the majors over the last 10 years, then you would have to ignore the paycheck and the days at home. It was only recently that ASA got 12 days off as a minimum...not sure on that BTW, but I believe it is correct. When I was at ASA, the lines I bid on had mostly 10 or 11 days off and the number of lines with more decreased sharply at 12 and up. Pay...you cannot compare them; Delta pilots make more as a whole by far.
So what are you trying to say I told you so about?
I fought (and lost) this battle over 10 years ago... Like I said, 3 jobs later, no stability, and (baring my contact work, pure luck).. no real pay.. They won, they got the 90 seaters, the EMB-190's and soon, we'll be farming out wide body flying to the "Regionals"... The winner in all of this, the ATA.