BenderGonzales
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Can't believe it's already been a year since I left Comair and, frankly, it looks like it was the right decision.
I made the decision to leave after Fred Buttrell met with the pilots in the trailer and talked about how we would have to be competitive with Chautauqua in order to grow. I believe at the time they were pushing a pay freeze.
I remember thinking, "this place has no future". Here I was, 2 years after being furloughed from a major, wondering if the same would happen at Comair. We were absorbing lost Delta flying (which was emotionally painful as I had a lot of furloughed Delta friends) and now, we had to compete with other regionals simply to maintain the status quo. Chautauqua had started parking at the "C" gates. The rumor de'jour was that we would get the Dornier Jets .... IF we played ball.
Enough was enough.
So -- who else has left Comair over the last year? And do you feel as though you made the right decision? Any move in aviation is a gamble these days. The question for me was, "Do I really want to gamble on a company that is forced to compete to fly for whatever scraps Delta wants to toss our way?" That didn't sound like a formula for long-term job security to me.
Who else? and Why?
I made the decision to leave after Fred Buttrell met with the pilots in the trailer and talked about how we would have to be competitive with Chautauqua in order to grow. I believe at the time they were pushing a pay freeze.
I remember thinking, "this place has no future". Here I was, 2 years after being furloughed from a major, wondering if the same would happen at Comair. We were absorbing lost Delta flying (which was emotionally painful as I had a lot of furloughed Delta friends) and now, we had to compete with other regionals simply to maintain the status quo. Chautauqua had started parking at the "C" gates. The rumor de'jour was that we would get the Dornier Jets .... IF we played ball.
Enough was enough.
So -- who else has left Comair over the last year? And do you feel as though you made the right decision? Any move in aviation is a gamble these days. The question for me was, "Do I really want to gamble on a company that is forced to compete to fly for whatever scraps Delta wants to toss our way?" That didn't sound like a formula for long-term job security to me.
Who else? and Why?