Gulfstream Intl Airlines Is Now Silver Airways

Boris Badenov said:
They know this is Total War, why don't we?
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Because pilots are a bunch of conservative Republican capitalists who pretend to be trade unionists on occasion when they think it will work to their benefit. They like to think of themselves as white collar executives, when they're actually blue collar hourly workers. Until that reality sets in (probably never), there will always be this problem.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Yeah, CFIs fly airplanes, too. Still not the same industry.
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I have boxes in the back, you have people, if anything you should be making more then me, so you're kinda right.

Where can I get a CFI gig flying a 19 seat TP? You're the one going on about the size of airplane.
 
jhugz said:
I have boxes in the back, you have people, if anything you should be making more then me, so you're kinda right.

Where can I get a CFI gig flying a 19 seat TP? You're the one going on about the size of airplane.
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He's talking about airlines vs. on-demand freight. Very different. I know quite a bit about the airline industry, but I can't tell you the first thing about how a freight company works. Different politics, different job, different public perception. No one's longer, its not a dong measuring contest, the 2 are just different.
 
jhugz said:
I don't fly on-demand freight, I fly scheduled freight. It's exactly the same, hub-spoke, regionals, etc. Just boxes over people.
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Don, a UPS pilot, sometimes posts here. Here's in the cargo industry. Also not the same industry I'm in. The economic factors that affect my airline don't necessarily affect his. The laws that Congress pass are sometimes different for our two operations (FT/DT may end up this way, unfortunately). The work rules that work for my airline wouldn't work for his. And so on.

You work in a scheduled freight environment. That environment is nothing like the regional airline environment. Comparing the two is ridiculous.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
How is it that Gulfstream can come up with a pretty decent airline name like that, but ASA somehow came up with the atrocious "SureJet?"

Good luck to everyone at the former GIA. I hope you guys are very successful.
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Hah...I think YOU know this answer already.
 
jhugz said:
I don't fly on-demand freight, I fly scheduled freight. It's exactly the same, hub-spoke, regionals, etc. Just boxes over people.
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Different regulations, different work rules, different unions, different problems. It isn't the same.
 
The Gulfstream becoming Silver Airways; it reminds me of Freedom A morphing into Freedom B at Mesa early in the last decade. Following that, Freedom became accepted as a legit operation, even after retaining the same name. Is there the potential that this whole thing could be following the same path? Benefit of doubt and all that?
 
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