Originally Posted by Sink r8

Here is the bottom line for me, and I wish it were true for all: we shouldn't have any kind of private swap system. We should remove the absurd Reserves Required restrictions that caused people to run away from SWP, and we should have a 21-st century SINGLE MARKET for PCS, where seniority and transparency rule every transaction, and a SWP is not assigned a lower priority than a drop/WS, but handled as a simultaneous conditional drop and pick-up withn the same priority. IT WOULD ALL FIT WITHIN MAX PICK-UP, with a bow-wave, and we could all fill up throughout the year, to a reasonable amount that would be more in line to the pilot profession than the oldest profession. I believe this to be so important that I am using caps, boldface, all at once. And let me add, for effect, some exclamation points!!!!! I really mean it!

But, when you consider how many people here just want to turn the maximum number of tricks of possible to get the most crack possible, you realize it's not going to happen. And the union is simply representing us ho's, and defending our right to be ho's.

Lord help me, I sure hope I don't come across as cynical and jaded, but that's my analysis of the forces at play. I think it's just too convenient (and futile) to pretend this is a case of representation gone wild, instead of pilots gone wild. Until we acknowledge that we are the root cause, and people actually change their preference, and the ho's become a minority, we're stuck where we are.