Republic is reported as having among the poorest wages and working conditions of all the US regionals. Now that the industry is rabidly growling their pilots are decamping to better employers and they are having to cancel flights due to a ack of crews. So they had a choice
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They could increase their pay and treat there pilots better, or
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Get the government to reduce the standards and create what is basically an indentured servitude program to reduce the cost of pilot wages and undoubtedly increase the executive bonuses.
And people are saying that capitalism is a rigged game only benefitting the well connected …