Re: Is there light at end of the tunnel for us regional FO's
Surely you did some research on Colgan before you accepted employment? You knew the pay scale so why start complaining now? You knew you were accepting employment from one of the bottom feeding airlines out there.
What can ALPA do for wages? Do you honestly think their going to wave their labor wand and wages are going to go through the roof?
For the life of me, I'll never understand why people go to work at a place and then do nothing but b&m over the working conditions (that are well documented before!)
I've never understood why people become pilots, period, and then b&m constantly. It isn't as though payscales, workrules, "typical day in the life of", information, is not readily available to all. I can understand many of the mainline pilots, of today, complaining, but for the life of me, seeing a regional FO complain, endlessly, sometimes, just makes me laugh. Either a lack of research, or ignoring what information was right in front of them; it certainly isn't as though anyone has been forced into the career. It was a choice. Live with it, or leave - as someone else said, "it is that easy". All you have to do if make a choice, even if that choice is to continue flying, while going back to school. I know that is going to make some people angry, but I don't care! It is the truth! When you log onto any aviation message board, it seems all you read are people's b&m-ing. What makes me laugh, is that many of the people complaining, are regional FO's, who just a couple of years ago, were student pilots, themselves, who couldn't wait to get hired by an airline. Now, all they do is complain, yet had all of the information they needed, in their face, about the career, yet still chose to pursue it.
I think if some pilots spent half of the time they did complaining on message boards, getting out, and being proactive about taking the career back, and fighting for what they "deserve", you'd see a bit more progess. A few have done it, but they alone cannot do it, without the support from all pilots, at all ranks.