Originally Posted by
Toddnel
I agree with you on this one (which in itself is concerning to me). One area I have a hard time with is when certain subUAL guys continue to shout about things we do that reduce captain positions yet they won't admit that it was a mistake to let all the instructor positions in the school house go to FO positions. In the process we gave up years and years of hard fought contract gains in that area and sliced a ton of captain positions off the books simply because a few though our instructor made too much money.
You can't chop this major chunk of Captain positions off the books without admitting it has the same negative effect.
Totally agree^^^^ next step will be like nwa/Delta and hire 500 hr flight instructors for 40k a year, not on the senority list.