You're not going to sit there and tell me that every RJ pilot with enough hours and PIC to be competitive will be qualified to work here.

And it would be supremely arrogant to think that every RJ pilot that is "Delta" qualified will even want to work here, with everyone under the sun hiring.

I had a chance to go to SWA, and turned it down. I don't want to be anywhere else. But dammit, we've got to improve our situation in an attempt make this a worthwhile career. If we continue down the road of rolling over to DALPA/management without using some common sense, this place could get real ugly over the next 30 years. Surely even you can admit that we're going to get fleeced with many aspects of this contract, especially productivity giveaways, and it's not even fully in place. Let's not do that again.

Yes, I'll be "that guy" to play richard cranium, as roadkill said. And no, I don't go on about it for the whole trip. I throttle back by leg 9.