Heyas,
There are so many problems with both sides, that only a concerted effort, with real sacrifice will ever fix it.
It's easy for the mainline pilots to say "get better work rules and pay for the regionals". But without real protection of the flying at the regionals, that will never happen.
Look at the Comair strike. It was an abject failure. Whether it was some huge ATA/RATA conspiracy, or if Mother Delta was just being mean, they were NEVER going to allow Comair to raise the bar in any significant way. They were a couple days from shutting down and outsourcing the whole shebang, which is why the settlement happened. It would have a been a better deal for DAL to shut the whole thing down, eat the loss on their investment in Comair, than to allow any real traction for the pilot groups.
Without protection of the flying, you aren't going to get ANYWHERE, because no one group, most especially the backpacked ipod SJS crowd wants to be the first on the chopping block.
The flying for the regionals is simply too mobile. It's simply outsourced lift, and when it costs too much, the airlines pick up the phone can call the next cheaper guy in the phone book .
Nu
There are so many problems with both sides, that only a concerted effort, with real sacrifice will ever fix it.
It's easy for the mainline pilots to say "get better work rules and pay for the regionals". But without real protection of the flying at the regionals, that will never happen.
Look at the Comair strike. It was an abject failure. Whether it was some huge ATA/RATA conspiracy, or if Mother Delta was just being mean, they were NEVER going to allow Comair to raise the bar in any significant way. They were a couple days from shutting down and outsourcing the whole shebang, which is why the settlement happened. It would have a been a better deal for DAL to shut the whole thing down, eat the loss on their investment in Comair, than to allow any real traction for the pilot groups.
Without protection of the flying, you aren't going to get ANYWHERE, because no one group, most especially the backpacked ipod SJS crowd wants to be the first on the chopping block.
The flying for the regionals is simply too mobile. It's simply outsourced lift, and when it costs too much, the airlines pick up the phone can call the next cheaper guy in the phone book .
Nu