Night Hawk 6

It has been said many ways but it still bears repeating: If you do not study your history and learn from it, you are doomed to relive it. The airline pilot profession is the living example of the truth in this statement. How else can you explain how management at every airline can use the same tactics and methods to successfully continue to ratchet down the quality and future prospects for our profession? It is so bad that in the current issue of the magazine ALPA sends to its pilots there is some bone head ALPA official extolling the virtues of "Pattern bargaining" and how it will be used in upcoming negotiations to advance the profession. The only ones using "pattern bargaining" to their advantage is airline management as they successfully continue to use their knowledge of history and the inherent flaws in ALPA's structure to diminish the airline pilot profession.