Originally Posted by
havick
Agree with your points, but where else do you go? There’s only other ****ty regionals (let’s face it they’re all pretty much the same). Let’s not forget it was mainline pilots that made B scales/regionals possible in the first place by allowing scope.
All true, I wasn't saying don't take the job. Hey, it's a relatively good time to be in the pilot job market. Enjoy the fact that, for now at least, they're offering some things to sweeten the pot, and pay scales *are* being pushed up some. I'm just saying don't fool yourself that this means that the pay and conditions will keep improving until they are approaching mainline terms. Quite the opposite, they're adding flow through agreements and other carrots precisely to keep that from happening.
And yeah, the unions agreeing to B scales, (as long at
they remained on the A scales) really illustrated how sincere they are about the whole "we're all in this together" concept. Hell, it's inherent in the name "union". You'd think they'd at least pretend to adhere to the concept.