Are you guys off your meds? In what world have you seen 747 captains with 9 years to retirement age (not 4, right Carl?) plotting and scheming, and expanding 6,000 posts to make certain us young pups don't make the same mistakes that he made WRT scope?

You guys think Carl is actually selling Scope? Carl is selling DPA. I don't know why, but I know that EVERY senior Captain I've ever worked with is fully engaged in an agenda that fits their demographic and position. There's nothing particularly nefarious about that, because they'll usually tell you what they (and their family) need most, and you can have a straight-forward, honest conversation, where many are forced to agree they don't care, because they can't really care, about Scope. This is because the benefits thereof are mostly behind them, and the biggest bang for the buck is in issues like retiree medical benefits. So you admit you don't yet care about retiree benefits, but you also agree that there is something to be gained if we stick together, and fight for BOTH objectives.

So maybe for Carl, Scope is an issue to strike alliances over, or a tool to reach out, but if anyone thinks Carl is out here purely to promote Scope and a better union as a sort of philantrophic effort, is hopelessly naive.

Either that, or Carl is the first truly genuiney altruistic pilot in the history of the industry. In which case, we should all line up to wash his feet, and wait to hear more prophecies. Who wants to go first?