Midwest: ALPA
Republic: IBT
Midwest Capt. rate: $153 (16 yr)
Republic Capt. rate: $98 (16 yr)
Draw your own conclusions.
Good thing Regional pilots are getting rid of all the good paying airline jobs by flying another Company's work.
The giant sucking sound of this profession going down the tubes continues. And when you young guys can't make a living wage in 20 years, you'll know who to thank...the guy in the mirror with SJS.
Let me preface this with I am 100% pro-union. I voted to unionize my carrier (we lost). My father was ALPA and I support ALPA. But ALPA is only as powerful as it's rank and file.
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No offense, nah ya know what if I offend I don't really care, but what has any of the ALPA groups done lately to help themselves?
I'm tired of sitting in the jumpseat or reading on forums about how the "regionals" or "group x" has "undercut, screwed, etc." the ALPA groups when they themselves are the ones who have sat idly by or worse voted in their own demise.
Many of the mainline carriers were offered the opportunity to fly the RJS. THEY declined. Many of the current pay cuts were voted on and accepted BY the rank and file of ALPA. When the pensions were illegally taken from the various pilot groups the only reaction was to not wear uniform required hats or wear wristbands or put stickers on flightbags. WTF!?
My father flew before this current generation. He retired in 1987. He walked a picket line, mor than once. He struck as did many of the large mainline carriers at the time so they (and by extension YOU and I) would have what they had or better. They made hard choices and acted on them.
No one is saying striking is easy. Because it certainly is not. But it's the only choice. And YOU have chosen to sit on your butt and do nothing while mangement team after management team cycles through the top office making themselves rich and screwing everyone below them.
You think I (we) would rather fly an RJ at a regional over a mainline? What world do you live in? Hell even if the mainlines had set up "B scales' we'd all be better off because we'd be on fewer seniority lists. As it is now we're one the equivalent of C or in some cases D scales.
However, until I see one of the mainlines grow some balls and do something,
anything to help themselves I really don't want to hear your incessant, infantile bitching about how everyone else is screwing you. You screwed yourself.
A lot of folks at the mainlines got thiers and then promptly turned around pulled up the ladder leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves. It's easy to sit in a cockpt or on a forum and wax poetic about how great and powerful you are and how many wrongs have been done to you and quite another to get out of that cockpit and off that forum and do something, anything to help YOURSELF.