Republic Airways to Fly Q400's for UAX
05-15-2012, 07:03 PM
#111
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2011
Position: Airbus button pusher
Posts: 2,448
I'm sorry I missed something. We're u a part of a non union carrier that voted in Alpa to make this profession better? Or wait, u went to an Alpa carrier already and didn't lower it by going to a scumbag operation like those of us at Colgan....
05-15-2012, 08:43 PM
#113
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,939
When will people realize that we're being used as pawns in this game of driving low costs?
No offense to anyone, but the regionals were never meant to be career stoppers with senior people making over $100k. That just wasn't the intent of outsourced regional flying. Now that gas is very expensive, labor has increased as well (which is better for us, but for the regional model to work, it's too much). The only solution is drive the price of oil back down to $40/barrel, and since we can't do that, the other solution is to go back to 1995-2002 era contracts, which is when the RJ phase boomed. That's what management is trying to do now.
People are right: if you can't pay us what our contracts are now, it's time for this business to go out of business. Shut her down. Unfortunately, there are many who have no place to go and will ride it all the way to the ground. Many will vote to keep their golden goose (paycheck) afloat, even when it means paycuts and QOL cuts. "Shut her down" is easy to say when you're not the one in bankruptcy.
Good luck to all.
This is only the beginning. The Qs are going to Republic. GoJets is getting a few more CRJ-700s than originally planned.
I'm waiting to see the Scope section on the new Delta TA. Once I see that, I'll give you my next set of predictions.
No offense to anyone, but the regionals were never meant to be career stoppers with senior people making over $100k. That just wasn't the intent of outsourced regional flying. Now that gas is very expensive, labor has increased as well (which is better for us, but for the regional model to work, it's too much). The only solution is drive the price of oil back down to $40/barrel, and since we can't do that, the other solution is to go back to 1995-2002 era contracts, which is when the RJ phase boomed. That's what management is trying to do now.
People are right: if you can't pay us what our contracts are now, it's time for this business to go out of business. Shut her down. Unfortunately, there are many who have no place to go and will ride it all the way to the ground. Many will vote to keep their golden goose (paycheck) afloat, even when it means paycuts and QOL cuts. "Shut her down" is easy to say when you're not the one in bankruptcy.
Good luck to all.
This is only the beginning. The Qs are going to Republic. GoJets is getting a few more CRJ-700s than originally planned.
I'm waiting to see the Scope section on the new Delta TA. Once I see that, I'll give you my next set of predictions.
05-15-2012, 09:44 PM
#114
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Posts: 555
Haha, coming from a guy who willingly flew a 50 seat rj for 21 dollars an hour starting pay. Stay classy San Diego
05-15-2012, 11:46 PM
#115
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,939
Oh don't get me wrong, it sucked. But $20.73/hr back in 2007 was competing with $19.02/hr at Skywest on the CRJ-200 first year. I've said it before, all regionals suck. Some just suck worse than others, but they ALL suck! I'd put Colgan in the "sucks worse than others" category.
05-16-2012, 04:22 AM
#116
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Posts: 939
05-16-2012, 05:29 AM
#117
ULTP-Ultra Low Tier Pilot
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,228
Im willing to bet scope was relaxed, again. Who wants to bet on that?
05-16-2012, 06:33 AM
#120
Banned
Joined APC: May 2012
Posts: 1,071
Oh don't get me wrong, it sucked. But $20.73/hr back in 2007 was competing with $19.02/hr at Skywest on the CRJ-200 first year. I've said it before, all regionals suck. Some just suck worse than others, but they ALL suck! I'd put Colgan in the "sucks worse than others" category.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Frisky Pilot
Regional
20
01-01-2022 06:02 PM
