If Rouge wasn't doing the flying it does, it is likely no AC pilot would be flying those routes. The company is only going to do things that make financial sense.altiplano wrote:They couldn't launch with a seperate list.What would have happened if Rouge had launched with a separate list? I imagine a lot of whipsawing and a bitter divided workforce.
The flying is scoped and owned by ACPA pilots.
We voted "No" to second tier wawcon and then the government shoved it down our throats.
Make no mistake, there is still a divided work force.
One getting benefits from the other.
Rouge sees improvements in wawcon while the mainline gets diminished.
It's not personal and rouge has worked out great for some that are there, holding positions out of seniority, doing the best flying, getting $30k raise on the last contract...
... but it's fucked mainline 320 and 767 pilots who work way more and earn less than if that flying were still at mainline...
... it's fucked all the AC Pilots who's contract has to be diminished to try to bring rouge closer, including those rouge pilots who will one day want to come back to mainline and will find out it is less than what it was... it didn't get better, it went backwards during the days of record earnings and share prices because we tried to improve rouge.
Don't hate the player, hate the game... best move is to not let the game get out of the box (any further)...
It would be better for most AC pilots if rouge didn't exist...
We left the door open for SunWing, Westjet and AT to expand. We finally get our stuff together and compete, with our weapon of Rouge, and yes we are profitable. Record profitable.
It is time to let go of that past...we are moving forward and we will improve conditions as a group but we are on a lengthy contract so we don't exactly have a ton of leverage right now....