Regulation, anyone?

[ex j-41]

News Flash!!!!

We are already regulated. The FAA is all around us.

What we have is managements wet dream. Just enough regulation to ensure CEO's make millions and workers make poverty.

If you want 100% regulation then all airlines should become Southwest.
THey offer limited service to small communities, yes low fares but they wouldn't be doing a flight if it wasn't making money.
If we had one airline and it worked on the Southwest principle then we would have the federal goverment stepping in regulating the industry.
Why? Because Southwest doesn't serve small communities. This country needs flights in and out of Norfolk, OGS, BFN.
If US Air and Delta etc...pulled the plug on the small cities then you will have your wish of 100% regulation. Till then...

 

[172driver]

The legacy pax airlines are another story. When 4 of them filed chapter 11, all bets were off and the labor groups had a completely different animal to deal with. It's not that it was unfair, it was that the bankruptcy court was now calling the shots.

And you don't see that as unfair? A single judge, with the primary goal of serving the creditors, is now the dictator of the pay and work rules for the majority of airline pilots in the country...though they had little to do with the company being in that position.

Most concessions were not just handed down from the courts either. The unions still had to vote on them, with pensions being one exception.

Yeah, they were voted on, with the companies and the court ready to impose something worse if the vote didn't come out in favor. Not exactly a free vote.

Your other points are well made. ALPA has created much of this mess for themselves through a complete lack of national solidarity.