Originally Posted by AtlCSIP

Actually, I don't care one but about the ALPA National seniority list. I don't work for ALPA, and quite frankly, ALPA doesn't really work for me either, the best I can tell. I work for ExpressJet, and I believe you gootta dance with the one that brung ya. I don't intend to spend the rest of my career here, but I do expect things to get better while I am here, and My goal is to leave this place better than I found it, if at all possible. That means attracting the best possible employees in a shrinking pool of prospects. We get good employees, and pay them to be here, it results in lower training costs, a better product to our partners, and a supply of folks to backfill so you and I can actually experience upward movement. If we can't get new people, our airline shrinks, which it may anyway. If it shrinks, we need fewer captains, which means no opportunity to advance here, and difficulty moving on. Better employees works out better for everyone.

In a perfect world, all 121 flying would occur at the mainline carrier painted on the fuselage. Since that isn't the case, we need to be better than everyone else so we can get the flying that is there.