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Midwest Death Watch

Midwest Pilots Convinced Service Will Suffer

September 12, 2008 at 1:15 PM | 0 Comments

Roughly 200 Midwest Airlines pilots rallied at Mitchell International in Milwaukee Thursday to protest upcoming layoffs and outsourcing. The troubled carrier, which recently got a cash infusion that could stave off bankruptcy, has decided to outsource some service to Republic Airlines, which will fly Embraer 170s instead of Boeing 717s.

One of the protesting pilots says that's not what passengers expect:

Midwest is going to be down to about 360 of the wide leather seats and 2,000 basically coach seats. The passenger is going to see a big difference in what kind of service they're going to receive.

Another pilot was more blunt:

They must think the public is stupid, and isn't going to notice.

Oh, we noticed!

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[Photo: Journal-Sentinel]