UAL RFP results?

[flylike44]

SWA pilots were the first "major" to work without an A fund pension plan...which undercut the "legacy" carriers...Pot meet kettle.

well played sir.

 

[WAZUP]

well played sir.

Agreed!

 

[relief tube]

I love bets on who will get to ruin this industry.....do feel like a winner....but you are really the loser....

ruin of the industry? Coming from a guy whose industry leading payrates are only industry-leading after 40% paycuts from everyone else. Your airline started all those $39 fares....if there weren't any $39 fares, its a fact that a lot of furloughed mainline pilots would still have jobs. SWA is the reason regionals do 50% of domestic flying right now.

 

[ASACRJFlyer]

ruin of the industry? Coming from a guy whose industry leading payrates are only industry-leading after 40% paycuts from everyone else. Your airline started all those $39 fares....if there weren't any $39 fares, its a fact that a lot of furloughed mainline pilots would still have jobs. SWA is the reason regionals do 50% of domestic flying right now.

Sorry, but I've gotta disagree with you on this one... Regionals wouldn't be doing all this flying if mainline pilots hadn't caved on scope. The senior folks at mainline were too busy watching out for themselves, selling the rest of us down the regional river. If scope had never been relaxed, the regionals couldn't have grown the way they did. If the legacies still had wanted RJ's, they would have been flown by mainline pilots.

 

[Beaver79]

SWA pilots were the first "major" to work without an A fund pension plan...which undercut the "legacy" carriers...Pot meet kettle.

You mean SWA did something that made them more competitive? How many "major" airlines make money like SWA pilots? Profit sharing isn't a word I hear being tossed around at many legacies. Guaranteed pensions are an old business model. That is why many many companies - airline and non airline alike - have dumped them. It is kind of difficult to predict revenues 20, 30 or 40 years in the future. It has nothing to do with undercutting.

 

[GuinessGuy]

ASACRJFlyer..........CORRECT SIR...........WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[superrav]

Competition Sucks...we need to re-regulate this ********************. ******************** that 39 dollar fare..who the ******************** in there right mind would think that is good for the industry. customers and there cheap ********************ing tickets...regulate!!!

 

[Hobit]

Sorry, but I've gotta disagree with you on this one... Regionals wouldn't be doing all this flying if mainline pilots hadn't caved on scope. The senior folks at mainline were too busy watching out for themselves, selling the rest of us down the regional river. If scope had never been relaxed, the regionals couldn't have grown the way they did. If the legacies still had wanted RJ's, they would have been flown by mainline pilots.

Good Post!!!


Amazing how this point gets lost so often.