Fly4hire
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Holy $hite.....a NWA guy crooning about a UNION?
You guys flew right through a major strike by your brother and sister UNION mechanics and you want to start a jumpseat war with the LCC's?
AMFA wanted a raise, and for the pilots to take a cut to fund it. Hardly enamoring of brotherly love. They also killed, by the executive stroke of their Prez, a better contract percentage wise for the mechanics than the pilots got so as to keep their membership numbers up with the newly incorporated acft cleaners who were making twice what your regional F/O makes. NWA said no dice to the cleaners and the rest is a sad history. Would you have gone on strike to protect a janitor that made more than $50K/yr in today's world?
Where do you think JB and AT found some of these eager new pilots? They are castaways from the legacies. Again, you want us to sit on the sidelines and help you recover your lost wages and bennies when you discarded most of us like yesterday's junk mail? I think not.
Not at all. But don't expect me to continue help you enable those wages on my back by helping the ULCC's propagate. BTW the "you" that furloughed you was your management, not your MEC. As to having discarded furloughed pilots, we gave them 2 yrs medical, passes, got them equity (some considerably more than they ever made W2). What we, nor any other MEC did, was be held hostage for further concessions to "buy" you back.
Giving another professional the courtesy of a ride to work or a ride home has always been OUTSIDE the realm of competition
Actually it's not. DAL only got it in the last 10 years - and it cost them to get it. The JS was not near as wide spread 20 yrs ago as now, and it was a hard won UNION negotiated benefit. That bears remembering.
In the meantime, you are always welcome to ride with me, even though the NWA guys have been less than nice to some of my brothers.
JB and Airtran are already part of the landscape. The history is just that, but the lessons learned should not be. I don't think you want to see further concessions anymore than I do, and LCC's are not immune to the next under bidder.
I would not be so fast to consider VA and Skybus "brothers". If you want to give a pilot a hand getting to work (or DH'ing for free) to help the next generation of ULCC erode our negotiated contracts further be my guest. I hope many of us don't.
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