Midwest Pilots

[sitnresrv]

I agree with the Colonial. You complain about how you are being expoited, but you voluntarily applied, interviewed and accepted a job knowing all about what you were in for. Now you complain? I flew for a regional way back when. The conditions were the same back then, they sucked, but I chose to go there just like you and had no right to complain after the fact.

 

[Colonel Savage]

sitnresrv- Appreciate the sentiment. BTW it's Colonel, not Colonial. I did get a chuckle out of it though.

 

[hockeypilot44]

How did RAH pilots help make this happen? Let's start with pay rates. The Captains pay for the 175/190 is embarasing. ($77 after 5 years)WTF? The FO is just F-ing stupid! (top out at $37 at 4 years) All jets? Are you kidding me? That's how they helped make this happen!
Talk about dragging down the industry. They have set the new bar for bringing down our industry. In a big way. Is anybody else seeing this?

This is a mainline aircraft. Regionals have no business flying these untill the pilots realize that just because we work for a "regional" airline, doesn't mean we have to take it in the shorts. If a "regional" airline payed mainline wages to fly these then fine. Not until then. This regional word is being misused. We fly coast to coast and Canada to Mexico.
We need to just change our name and it will change our mindset. We need to take Regional out of our vocabulary. Seriously! Management knows that we have this regional mindset and they are exploiting it. We are being taken advantage of. It is down right criminal the wages we are making for the sacrafices from home and responsibility we hold. For the amount we all have in this career and for the thousands of reasons we can loose our job at any moment, we should be paid more.

Am I right or am I right?

You are right. They should call them "contract carriers" instead of "regionals."

 

[B727FA]

It just doesn't get any better than that!

Oops! Busted! :laugh:

 

[trainer8]

The R's all have to do with replacement. No airline has replaced more pilots then Republic. The windfall Republic pilots have gained the last few years come at the expense of many seasoned real jobs at real carriers. Repulic is a disgrace.

M

And....that's the fault of the pilots, right?

 

[ultrarunner]

The R's all have to do with replacement. No airline has replaced more pilots then Republic. The windfall Republic pilots have gained the last few years come at the expense of many seasoned real jobs at real carriers. Repulic is a disgrace.

M

I can't disagree that RAH is replacing quite a bit of other flying, but I'm thinking maybe the 100 or so pilots they have on the street, the downgrades associated with that, and FO's with families barely making 30k a year might not be seeing that windfall you're talking about. You should give them a call and re-educated them on how well they're doing!

 

[B727FA]

So you wouldn't care if RAH came in a "stole" your flying if they were paid at least as well? Interesting theory.