Originally Posted by
Packrat
It is absolutely a pyramid scheme. Everyone thinks they're going to be a 747 International Captain and make huge bucks.
The truth of the matter is only a small fraction of pilots will ever make it to a Major airline, much less a whale left seat.
A lot of you are going to finish your career in the left seat of an RJ so you'd better sack up and stop voting for substandard contracts. And you'd better be willing to strike to get what you deserve.
And that worked so well for Comair.
I am sorry, but the simplistic "Follow Me Over the Cliff in the name of ALPA" crap is not what this industry needs.
What we need is unity, and that means that we have to stop eating our young, preying on our weak and washing our hands like Pontius Pilot.