Our airline is losing money and we can still negotiate, your airline is making money hand over fist and you guys can't negotiate. Don't blame mainline pilots for saving their jobs, the airline had to cut costs to that of SWA, and that's exactly what they did. When the next low cost airline comes in we will cut our pay to their level. Welcome to the era of deregulation, eventually we will be making nothing. As far as I see this contract is a victory, since it holds onto the past a little longer.
We have an career where thousands of people will do our job for below mcdonalds wages. Low ball airlines can start up and force prices down and then disappear leaving damage that takes decades to repair. The industry is dominated by oil and the market. We have technology that removes human function from the pilots, you name it. This is a dying profession and pilots are literally working overtime to drive it there. Why? because that's just the way it is. Everbody does it in every career there is, some professionals have taken steps to stop it. Pilots have not done a dang thing to control this profession in any way shape or form, half of the pilot group out there shouldn't even be there.
For god sakes look at Mesaba, that company was making profits before bankruptcy, during bankruptcy, and will make money after bankruptcy. It's not going anywhere but up for them and you guys are negotiating concessions. Then you have the audacity to say the mainline people threw you under the bus. It's hard to throw you guys under the bus when you laid down in the middle of the road. Start realizing that you will get nothing from mainline pilots, they don't even want you in their jumpseat. Wake up guys!
