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You think mainline pilots are selfish because we want to fly the same aircraft for twice as much. Management loves it that we fight with each other instead of with them. They use us against each other.
No one thinks that you are selfish because you want a good wage for the 70+ seat airplane. We think that mainline pilots (senior ones) are selfish because they voted away the futures of regional pilots by relaxing scope in order to get a bigger pay check.
We would all be thrilled if the 170/175 was at mainline and had a $50-$160/hr pay range from day one to year 12. We would love to leave the regionals behind. The only reason we fly these planes here at our regional abusers is because mainline pilots gave them away.
I do think it is selfish to give something away, and then change your mind and take it back. We regional pilots have had to build our lives and livelihoods around these larger airplanes. To take them back now (and leave the pilots behind) would devastate the lives of thousands of families. And you only want these planes back because now you have thousands on furlough. Yes, everyone can claim hurt to families. But, mainline pilots chose this hurt for their own people when they relaxed scope. We did not ask to be left jobless.
Not to mention, mainline does not have a great track record with compensation for E170-E190 pilots. MidAtlantic was a B-scale airline, the pay scale mimicking a regional as determined by mainline pilots who had eyes for their own paycheck only. Now mainline USAirways still pays less than $100/hr for the E190. RAH pay goes up to $119/hr for the smaller E-175. JetBlue does not have these heroic pay rates you threaten, either. Sure, Delta has a good payrate for the E-jets, but that is purely theoretical. There are no E-jets at Delta mainline, and Delta management is going to keep it that way.
No one thinks that you are selfish because you want a good wage for the 70+ seat airplane. We think that mainline pilots (senior ones) are selfish because they voted away the futures of regional pilots by relaxing scope in order to get a bigger pay check.
We would all be thrilled if the 170/175 was at mainline and had a $50-$160/hr pay range from day one to year 12. We would love to leave the regionals behind. The only reason we fly these planes here at our regional abusers is because mainline pilots gave them away.
I do think it is selfish to give something away, and then change your mind and take it back. We regional pilots have had to build our lives and livelihoods around these larger airplanes. To take them back now (and leave the pilots behind) would devastate the lives of thousands of families. And you only want these planes back because now you have thousands on furlough. Yes, everyone can claim hurt to families. But, mainline pilots chose this hurt for their own people when they relaxed scope. We did not ask to be left jobless.
Not to mention, mainline does not have a great track record with compensation for E170-E190 pilots. MidAtlantic was a B-scale airline, the pay scale mimicking a regional as determined by mainline pilots who had eyes for their own paycheck only. Now mainline USAirways still pays less than $100/hr for the E190. RAH pay goes up to $119/hr for the smaller E-175. JetBlue does not have these heroic pay rates you threaten, either. Sure, Delta has a good payrate for the E-jets, but that is purely theoretical. There are no E-jets at Delta mainline, and Delta management is going to keep it that way.
It's over, the fat lady has sung....
It's over, the fat lady has sung. It was a nice run, but see ya'. I just can't believe the idiots on Howell did this to a once great company with what had been a promising future.