zmiller4
Well-Known Member
The parking of smaller Eagle jets has been long planned due to fleet retirement and in fact, has been delayed to lack of suitable replacement. This had nothing to do with management current demands of the pilot group. You were at Eagle? Where are you now?
Out of the industry after 5 more years with another regional.
... and your desire to vote on this directly is exactly the party line of people who are 1) scared witless
That makes no sense. If your pilot group supports rejecting it, what are YOU afraid of?
... and frankly, if you derive nothing else from this thread, you should know that if you're not at Eagle, you don't get a say.
Obviously.
This is our vote and our issue. Beyond that, I'm not sure why you'd want to influence it...
I don't. I have no idea where you're getting that.
unless you thought mucking things up might help you wherever you are now...
Not in the least. I do care because people I know are still there and I hope the best for them. By the way, I'd also like you to point out where I "blithely criticized" Eagle pilots.
Fear is your watchword. I get it. Now be quiet.
Fear is my watchword? Good lord. You might want to stop baselessly telling anyone who disagrees with you that they're "afraid" or to be quiet--it doesn't do much for your message. I've told you: I don't think I'd vote for it...but it would be knowing full well that it might mean my job.
By the way, you talk all the time about the "leverage" that regional pilots have, and I actually agree that they're starting to get some....because their employers can't fill seats. You know who you can thank for this "leverage"? The people that said screw it, I'm not flying for that compensation and left (or never went to) the airlines. I left my job during the highest unemployment since the Great Depression because airline flying wasn't providing the life that my family deserves...you want to tell me more about fear?
I'll repost something @Gonzo responded to you in another thread:
They [management] are never really weak because the game is rigged.
The fact that you don't understand that the game is rigged means you don't even understand the game you're playing.