glassnpowder98

I'm glad you spend enough time in this thread to have the page numbers memorized to pull my quotes. There was about a week when I was being selfish and wanted to better my situation by being able to drive work. Then I realized it wasn't worth the empty promises and days off lost at home. I came to Republic because we own our airplanes and I didn't want to be part of the regional reshuffle game. I was naive to the fact that coming here was exacerbating the problem of super cheap labor, but instead had hopes of being part of setting an industry leading contract (it was 6 years in the making when I got hired).

Those planes were acquired based on an unsustainable business model (cheap pilots) with the assumption that the 145's and Q400's would be off property to staff them. It was a negligible gain in airframes, nothing to get excited about. Delta said no that's not going to happen, and now they're putting 717's on some of our routes. At the end of the day, I sleep great at night (on my originally scheduled days off) and feel great about not making the move to TSA.

Realtalk

Arw not a concessionary TA. Just a blah nothing better TA.

Realtalk

While I have a great distain for most everyone, even my own regional, its nice to see things moving in the right direction. But I think the big reason the TA was achieved was because of the pilots you desperately need to attract. First year pay is better than most, but in the grand scheme of things its still well below what we ALL deserve.

CBreezy

Not concessionary but a concession was given on health care. It had concessionary language

CBreezy

I agree 100%. I really know we are underpaid and undervalued. I think the TSA TA, while not a huge leap, was still a step in the right direction. Until we can pull the likes of GJ, Mesa and RAH out of the basement, no one will be able to make significant and meaningfull gains.

glassnpowder98

Losing 77 pilots in the last two months (187 since June 2014) with the carrot of 50+ shiny under the wing jets on order and having a pilot group willing to put the pressure on management helps. We (through our union) said no to $40/hour first year pay; why did you accept $35? To try and get some warm bodies in the door to staff those XR's?

Cloudstreet7

Cuz the XR'S are so different from any other variant of the 145?. It's an airplane. We all fly airplanes what's the big deal?

glassnpowder98

The big deal is that an "industry leading" pay increase was voted in to try and staff airplanes that are yet to come on property, while the likes of AWAC and RJET who have TA's and LLLLBFO's out with rates north of the "industry leading" pay are being undercut. It's a "me me me" culture of taking the first offer to facilitate growth and quick upgrades. One day you'll just realize you are the flavor of the week and there's no one to fill seats because you neglected to make this career viable for the people behind you.

Cloudstreet7

Just so you know I spent time at RAH myself sir. Majority of the RAH pilots were not for that TA that was proposed because it circumvented the Union.

Purpleanga

Tsa pilots as well as the other 50 seat only operators don't have as much leverage as you think. Especially Tsa wich is not wholly owned and survives on cheap contracts. That we have this good of a contract is amazing enough and that alone took years. It's just not realistic to ask for 100 bucks an hour for flying that's on its way out. The contracts are literally on yearly terms. This extension was also about preservation of what we have as much as anything else. Hopefully people show up for class.