Originally Posted by Night Hawk 6

Just like "shrinking to profitability" is not a good business plan for the company, "surrendering to fight another day" has not worked well for the profession. Led by ALPA, pilots have been fed the line that "we will get them the next time" or "this is all we can get now" implying that somewhere down the road pilots will be able to regain what they give up today to have some peace. Well how well has this philosophy served the professional pilot since deregulation in 1978? If you take the salary of a Delta 727 captain in 1978 and adjust it to provide that same purchasing power today it will make you cry. The highest paid pilots today, wide body pilots, are at least 20 percent behind this narrow body Delta captain working 75 hours per month and the gap between those flying comparable aircraft today exceeds 50 percent, and that does not take into account the increased number of hours flown by pilots today. What is the justification for taking anything that is in any way concessionary? It is insanity to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different results. Sad.