Pennsylvania_born
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- May 5, 2007
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I am a west pilot.
If we fight each other we will do the following:
Maintain our industry low and bankruptcy employment contract and pay schedule for a long time. We can not get a contract until we work together on it.
We will slow or eliminate the growth plans and opportunistic moves the airline might make. This creates further stagnation for pilot careers.
We will see our airline underperform financially, and this will cost us money when negotiating contract and in profit sharing and common stock value.
We will hate coming to work because of the tension and atmosphere of hatred, envy, and anger.
The airlines that take the steps to get their operation running right, who have some higher level of employee satisfaction and a cooperative work environment, will slowly,but surely, take our passengers away from us. They, and their employees will be the winners. It will be Continental, Southwest, and JetBlue for sure, and maybe the post bankruptcy majors and AMR, with startups like Virgin and maybe Skybus growing and gaining momentum.
Everybody else in the industry will benefit from our internal strife and inability to work together.
I hope the airline management will show some leadership, as well as the unions. We have to get this right or our time will have been wasted, our sacrifice for nothing, and our futures bleak.
I don't know how you overcame whatever inequities may have occurred from the previous mergers, but we are going to need to see some leadership and some compromise to avoid horrible things like five fatal crashes in five years(which many veteran pilots attribute to merger problems) or liquidation, being parted out and sold, or getting swallowed up by a larger carrier.
We can make it work. We can actually win,,, if we do it together!
If we fight each other we will do the following:
Maintain our industry low and bankruptcy employment contract and pay schedule for a long time. We can not get a contract until we work together on it.
We will slow or eliminate the growth plans and opportunistic moves the airline might make. This creates further stagnation for pilot careers.
We will see our airline underperform financially, and this will cost us money when negotiating contract and in profit sharing and common stock value.
We will hate coming to work because of the tension and atmosphere of hatred, envy, and anger.
The airlines that take the steps to get their operation running right, who have some higher level of employee satisfaction and a cooperative work environment, will slowly,but surely, take our passengers away from us. They, and their employees will be the winners. It will be Continental, Southwest, and JetBlue for sure, and maybe the post bankruptcy majors and AMR, with startups like Virgin and maybe Skybus growing and gaining momentum.
Everybody else in the industry will benefit from our internal strife and inability to work together.
I hope the airline management will show some leadership, as well as the unions. We have to get this right or our time will have been wasted, our sacrifice for nothing, and our futures bleak.
I don't know how you overcame whatever inequities may have occurred from the previous mergers, but we are going to need to see some leadership and some compromise to avoid horrible things like five fatal crashes in five years(which many veteran pilots attribute to merger problems) or liquidation, being parted out and sold, or getting swallowed up by a larger carrier.
We can make it work. We can actually win,,, if we do it together!
