[falconvalley]

Ok, I'm gonna get on my soapbox here so if anyone is easily bored by that kind of stuff, there's your warning.

Consider the fact that when NWA started that operation, it was clear why they were doing it. It was unpopular then and still is now. Let's look at WHY they're paying such low rates. NWA specifically wanted to save a few bucks when they bought the 170's by crewing them with cheaper labor. Ok let's stop there and think about this objectively. I don't like it. You don't like it. That idea in itself sounds really dumb to agree to. Nobody wants to be cheap labor. Ok, so objectively- NWA wants cheap at the bottom of the scale. They come up with this idea to start a whole new certificate and crew it with regional pilots, while keeping the mins higher than at other regional carriers. They gave the new hires an opportunity to get a senority number and the mainline folks an opportunity to flow back. There. Everybody has a fork in this pie.

Now, the low pay is very undesirable. However, the deal was so popular that people would sign up for it and mainline would sign off on it. There are always going to be people that are willing to do that. I don't know if that deal still stands with Delta. I haven't been keeping up.