Featherbedding by ANYONE goes away NOW or U goes away. Time for management and labor to GET REAL!!!!!
Oh god, i'd give my left arm for A320 to be outsourced down to the right seat, or even better, onto the street.
Guys like him dont know what its like to lose their jobs. They're in the comfortable "just senior enough" spot where they won't have to adjust their lifestyle -- they wont have to move out of their comfortable Cranberry homes. They won't have to uproot their families and move to other cities. They're willing to condemn their co-workers to the unemployment line in a desperate effort to make it to retirement without having to put on another uniform or, god forbid, sit in the right seat again.
If he could, for just a moment, get his head out of Dave's dark-place just long enough to realize that EMPLOYEE COST is only PART of the equation, and that revenue must be addressed, I would be shocked.
Even Stephen Wolf -- A320s EXboyfriend -- said it was impossible to downsize to profitability.
I have never met anyone who i'd rather see in the right seat of a Mesa RJ. Sadly, he's just senior enough to hold court on internet message boards and never feel the impact of his suggestions. Featherbedding indeed. 1800+ furloughs and the elimination of earned retirement isn't featherbedding -- its massive outsourcing and career devistation.
Hopefully after the "UCT" he'll end up in the right seat at the surviving company (at the very least) and some Captain will treat him the way he wants to treat all of us -- like an insignificant peasant simply wasting the company's money.