Originally Posted by p1ayn

Southerner, Its a great place to work and for the most the extremists that dream of a union are a minority especially on this whine board. This issue and crying of a union is absolutely getting old and I find myself avoiding this altogether. What I have found is that 95% of every pilot I fly with and associate with do not want ALPA on board although we all agree we can improve some areas, but what airline can't? The "specualtion" of the " pilots that have the know" because of business sense or what they hear is laughable. REALITY is we have hired hundreds in last 5 years and 300 in last two years. We are growing, are getting airplanes, new terminals, and have motivational letters on remaining as such which if you care to believe or not is an individual choice, however, personally i enjoy the kharma as opposed to the last three ALPA carriers I was associated with. I want no part of the mentality it provides to the workforce and the fact we have people here with the name calling and agendas just endorses the friction and division it causes. The ALPA BullS..t is tiresome yet dominates every forum board luckily only from the same few. We have the youngest fleet with the youngest Capts on board making pretty dam good money and FO after 1st year is not bad either. NOT the best or tops but its better than AA,UAL/CAL,USAIR and others. Are others better? Sure but hey I dont care of the others, I work here, and like I mentioned the REALITY is we are making money and growing. When I read a sentence that starts with " I like to see what happens when....." or "just wait till AA buys us...." or " I just read that...." you get the jist...its laughable. Some people have nothing better to do than complain or LOOK for faults. Unfortunately I have experienced that at every airline and have come to realize its just a select few that no matter what happens they will find fault. We can improve here, insurance is a hot topic and I agree we should take steps to improve on that, everything else, I rely on myslef with companys contribution as a bonus. Its a good place, good people, pilot group, flt attendants, gate etc. I perosnally am happy here and have no desire to go elsewhere. Hope you ignore the negative statements and the extremists who refuse to be happy and have big picture. There is a reason we are successful, and have not furloughed, and why whether others want to believe it or not WANT to work here, its because it is a good place to be. When others start to hire so beit, let them hire. History over the last 12 years have shown others to hire only to furlough. Not specualtion, thats FACT. ALPAs fault, probably not, but it sure as hell didn't help. Other wise we would not have so many legacy furloughed Cpt here now would we? Come to think of it, I wouldnt be here, I was suppose to be "protected from all 3 different ALPA carriers also. It is what it is, Come joing the happy majority...Ignore the negative blasts I get from this post, Im sure it will be Troll", clueless, head in sand, bluejuicer, sad, etc...Im just a pilot working JB that is actually happy, and have better things in life to do than complain. And for the most part Im not alone....Cheers...