BoilerUP
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- Nov 11, 2003
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I appreciate your concerns about and for me...but don't talk down to me with your terms like "junior". There are no rose colored glasses here. I've seen first hand how brutal this industry is and can be, but as I've said before, that doesn't make it right...and I don't expect the company to 'give' me anything. I would expect them to honor the intent of a "good-faith negotiated" CBA, but when they don't even honor the letter of said CBA, I admit such is wishful thinking.
You talk about escaping Chautauqua and the regional airline world in the late 90s to get into corporate then ask where your seniority would place you if you had stayed, which would be within top 100 with 17-18 days off a month as an E170 check airman. I'm sure you have no regrets about your current position and the career progression that got you there, especially in light of current events.
What I fail to understand, however, is how you can sit back and justify what TSA management is doing to Trans States pilots via Go Jet. When the contract was originally signed in 2000, nobody had ever heard of Freedom or Republic. During the extension scope may have been overlooked. I don't have the dates in front of me, but when did TSA sign their extension compared to the MAG and CHQ contracts being ratified? Even then it may not have been a factor, because Trans States Holdings did not exist at that time! How can a union scope something that doesn't exist?
Time will tell what will happen with Trans States Airlines and Go Jet. If Go Jet succeeds, it will cause even more trouble in this already turbulent industry. I think TSA pilots are taking a stand to protect their jobs, and they aren't willing to sell themselves or their value short. This board is full of corporate pilots who loudly proclaim their distain for people who "lower the bar" in their sandbox, so why are you defending those who do it somewhere else?
and BTW....I don't work for TSA.
You talk about escaping Chautauqua and the regional airline world in the late 90s to get into corporate then ask where your seniority would place you if you had stayed, which would be within top 100 with 17-18 days off a month as an E170 check airman. I'm sure you have no regrets about your current position and the career progression that got you there, especially in light of current events.
What I fail to understand, however, is how you can sit back and justify what TSA management is doing to Trans States pilots via Go Jet. When the contract was originally signed in 2000, nobody had ever heard of Freedom or Republic. During the extension scope may have been overlooked. I don't have the dates in front of me, but when did TSA sign their extension compared to the MAG and CHQ contracts being ratified? Even then it may not have been a factor, because Trans States Holdings did not exist at that time! How can a union scope something that doesn't exist?
Time will tell what will happen with Trans States Airlines and Go Jet. If Go Jet succeeds, it will cause even more trouble in this already turbulent industry. I think TSA pilots are taking a stand to protect their jobs, and they aren't willing to sell themselves or their value short. This board is full of corporate pilots who loudly proclaim their distain for people who "lower the bar" in their sandbox, so why are you defending those who do it somewhere else?
and BTW....I don't work for TSA.