My best analogy: I'm very slowly climbing a rope, and ALPA is slowly burning up the rope that's behind me. Actually the past five years I haven't really been climbing, just hanging there, as the work rule sellouts and scope failures have slowly eliminated most of the rope behind me.

Going forward, I'm counting on the guys on the rope ahead of me get to the top and get off. Hopefully the speed of their exit is faster than the rate of job sales, so that I still have a spot on the rope in ten years. Time will tell...