It is too late now- but this should have been done the day after deregulation. Pilots would not be in the situation that they are now in if they had developed a national seniority list 25 years ago. ALPA should have thought of this- but then pilots are ALPA. I have heard pilots talking about how they would move up if this airline went out of business or that airline was bought. You could practically see them salivating at the thought of profiting from another pilots misfortune. It is the nature of the beast. Pilots would eat their own young if the demise of their offspring would open up a left seat. So congratulations to all of you- mostly white males who really could not ever imagine yourselves as part of the working class. Management figured you out 25 years ago. They took everything that you held dear- being part of the elite. Management used 9/11 to do what they had wanted to do since deregulation. They waved the magic wand of bankruptcy and made you all middle class in the blink of an eye! Here’s what is so ironic- you did not see it coming because you thought that you were indispensable- until you realized that you were not only dispensable, but that because of seniority, you would be at the bottom of the heap at 50 years old, at best. You were not really like those “other” union members. YOU were more like management- they would not do this to you. How could they? They could and they did and they did it with your blessing. And still you do not learn. It is not over. You think that all of these old guys will retire and clear the way for you. You are wrong. Globalization is coming. You see just how fast the retirement age changed when it proved beneficial for the capitalist system. And low and behold guys who only ten years earlier would have never thought that they would be trying to make it to 65, had no retirement and would work as long as they could pass a “flight” (which is also quite laughable) physical. “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”