Skybus Toast

[PCL_128]

This is not one of those times.

 

[redbook]

You can think things and say things at the bar or your house but sometimes its best left to keep your thoughts to yourself.

That is fair, but is ANYONE mourning the passing of the "career" of the 60,000$ Airbus Captain?

 

[Palomino]

ouch.

didn't they dangle a stock grant before the nose of those who took the job?

 

[T-Bags]

The pilots are getting exactly what they deserve.

DITTO!! Many of these guys were the same "opportunist" who wished for my company's demise when they were "pseudo scabs" at ACA "gettin ta fly tha bus". Luckily, hiring has pretty much stopped... If you make the decision to undercut salaries in the industry, it should be the last job you ever get in the industry.

 

[redflyer65]

Not good for the employees, but

definitely good for the industry.......

 

[viper01]

So you like someone doing your job for a third of what you do it for?

I thought you were one of those that actually paid $20,000-30,000 to sit in the right seat of a B-1900?

 

[FADEC]

So you like someone doing your job for a third of what you do it for?

Dude back in 2000 I was making more as a D328 Captain for ACA, an excellent unionised regional carrier, than you ever did at Pinnacle but that didn't stop you from going to work there. You were only interested in the fast upgrade and you truely didn't or don't give a crap about your peers. God forbid that SWA eventually bid or takeover Airtran for I have little doubt you will wail and cry louder than a Banshee. You are solely about one person, yourself!!Again I say shame on you. You are one off the reasons why I personally want an inhouse union over at JetBlue as opposed to ALPA. I would be ashamed to call you a brother.

 

[redbook]

Here is a gem from FMS Speed (remember him?) regarding Skybus:



"Well said..

and remember the wise old saying.. "Sell to the classes, live with the masses; sell to the masses, live with the classes"

Happy Thanksgiving.

$65,000 salaries don't last for ever.. not when millions start to roll in!"

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Sympathy to the pilots, but lets understand... pilot pay is not the problem!! If the Skybus pilots worked for free this company still would have folded...

 

[FADEC]

DITTO!! Many of these guys were the same "opportunist" who wished for my company's demise when they were "pseudo scabs" at ACA "gettin ta fly tha bus". Luckily, hiring has pretty much stopped... If you make the decision to undercut salaries in the industry, it should be the last job you ever get in the industry.

Please elaborate, I'm genuinely not following your train of thought.

 

[AA717driver]

Hallelujah!!!!!

Your current employer hasn't exactly hoisted the bar.

Should we cheer if Air Tran goes under? TC

 

[jbvt]

PCL did your daddy pay for u to fly in a B1900 at GulfStream?

 

[PlaneDrvr]

So you like someone doing your job for a third of what you do it for?

Well, maybe it wouldn't sound as bad to them, if it wasn't coming from a 'PDT-er' like you. The oportuntists pilots at skybus are Not that much different than those who "Pay For Training" and 'buy their jobs and their way into the industry' undercutting pilots who have worked their way up.

I guess PFT and undercutting others in the industry was 'OK' when you bought your job at Gulfstream???

Now you are just a 'class-less' alpa "cheerleader" but will always be a PFT-er, and have no room to talk, and should just STFU on this board. Sorry, the truth hurts.

And, for the record, this is coming from someone who has 'worked my way up' in this industry, had companies go out of business, been furloughed, many times, NEVER paid for training, and even chose to remain unemployed rather than to even sign a 'training contract' (for a job that I was more than qualified for, or over qualified for).

Again, You don't have room to talk.

For what its worth.

DA

 

[redflyer65]

The 328 at ACA in 2000?

 

[Jonny Sacko]

Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray. Sorry to the employees, but Great for the aviation industry!!