lowecur
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Your arguement would hold more water if MDA, SKW, and RJET hadn't already lowered the bar. The same reaction is going on over at the regionals towards MESA, and didn't all of the above have their contracts negotiated with collective bargaining. B6 mgt is reacting to the rates that are already on the table, and they aren't going to let anyone have an advantage as they launch the 190 in 2005. This is not a pro-active rate structure, but a reactive pay rate based on a forward thinking mgt style. It is a much easier task to do this now with 800 or so pilots, than it would be with SWA and 5000 pilots. The streets are littered with pilots who put the profession ahead of their company.AlbieF15 said:And lowcur....this is yet another reason that bringing a second, albeit cheaper type of plane into the SWA model can be a bad idea. Saving a few CASMs here or there but gutting worker esprit and elan is simply being penny wise and pound foolish. Perhaps this type of "b scale, b team, minor league" or whatever euphamism you want division is exactly what SWA knew to avoid in its crew force.
Standard disclaimer--just a fighter pilot and I may be wrong....