Originally Posted by IQuitEagle

OK, I'll write this one last time since you both misread what I posted. I am not arguing that the concessionary pay was not based on JB pay at the time. True enough. What I am saying is that if it wasn't JB, it would have been someone else, or they would have come up with another pay scale altogether. The problems of the legacies, and the resulting effects on pay, etc., would have occurred irrespective of JB's existence.

We as pilots are quick to blame one group of us or another for our ills. My point is that the notion that one group, airline, union/non-union, as the basis for our problems is misguided. Hence my reference to the very group of pilots at legacies, who are just as guilty of "lowering the bar" at one point or another, as the next. We are our own worst enemy. And no single group is responsible for our industry's woes.

For the record, I would like to get a union on property here at JB. But I am tired of you blowhards continually saying how we are dragging the industry down by not having one. We are just dragging our own selves down. That said, not everything is terrible here.