I'll preface my comments by reminding you of how much I respect you and your opinion. I hold both in the highest regard.
Now, considering that PIT might end up becoming mostly Express flying, what is to keep Tempe from keeping PSA there instead of Mainline? Our pays rates are much lower than Mainline and we have a contract already in place. In addition, we would only have to be trained on one addtional regional jet type in the Embraer family, which Republic has been pushing for anyway, citing reduced costs as the major reason. Mainline employees would have to be trained on five additional aircraft, both regional jets and turboprops.
Unless, of course, they would transfer all of the PSA employees to Mainline. We wouldn't mind another raise.
Prince, I do feel we both understand the logistics of the PIT situation------But you must realize what the mainline group has sacrificed over the years starting in 1991 with the express work yanked right out from underneath us---Hell we even had to train our replacements-----Just think about that----One day you come to work and the company tells you that ASII will be taking over your jobs and oh, by the way you have to train them....pretty bad, but that's how it went down...
Now I could see why the company did this in 1991, 1st we had just lost our union and our language that protected these jobs---2nd this was a chance for the company to exact revenge-----and save money at the same time.
But to be realistic, now you must admit that running this operation with 2 separate work groups and all the baggage that comes with it is just ludicrous.....With the flight levels running out of PIT today....
Now depending on what these retards do in PIT-----Our contract scope language requires the company to utilize mainline employees to work mainliine a/c...the schedule would pretty much have to go down to around 5-7 mainlne flights a day for them to be able to completely outsource the work---Now I'm not saying this won't happen---What i am saying is that if management would have listened to us when the merger happened and consolidated the 2 groups into 1 back then when PIT still had around 200 flts. a day ---We all would not be in the position we are in now......And if the company is required to utilize mainline employees it just makes common sense to run the operation efficiently to maximize the cost savings associated with running a tight ship....
I do understand your position and dully respect it---as you are one of the few people it seems in this company who actually understand what the problem with US is and what needs to be done to fix it, but you must understand where all of the hard working dedicated 20+ year mainline employees are coming from when it comes to this situation.....
I for one would have no problem allowing the company to bring in the existing employees from PSA into our group as lets say a token of good will.....
It's just too bad that the short sightedness of this management team can not even figure out something as simple as 1st grade math when it comes to this, so I do feel we will both be moving on--
Good Luck to you!
(And let's play that game again......"When I say Tempe, you say.......?" "STUPID"
