Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
No....that's the way the company should be thinking.
I want my agent to expend its efforts figuring out how to make us more money...not convincing us we need to seek less in order to subsidize the dividend/executives' bonuses/next aircraft order/etc.
Perhaps Bob Wiley is an agent provocateur planted here by the DPA to make ALPA look even more buffoonish. If so, I don't approve of that tactic. There are enough ALPA operatives here without sending in another clown. (paging Rather B. Fishin and his phallic fixation).
However, Wiley's tone-deafness is ALPA writ large. He probably believes every nocturnal emission from his keyboard.
Naw. This Wiley is not a pilot at all. He has management written all over him. What flavor is he though. 4th floor "be humble and compliant" disciple? Perhaps a mahogany row type. I am going to guess definitely inflight management. Why you might ask that I am guessing that.
It is pretty much fact pilots are cheap as a majority. However, even if my hypothesis is true, I have Never met one that would be happy with less pay and benefits.