Tone it down, you're walking a thin line on flame bait.

Yes.

A union at SKW might help us stabilize some policy issues and maybe get enough of a raise to cover the dues. It will not help to improve the profession...no regional union can do that because the problem is the way the game is rigged. The only way to "fix" the regionals is one of these:

1) All the regional pilots unite under one banner and collectively squeeze regional management. But the problem here is that the regionals are caught in the middle and mainline management would just refuse to pay up and then shift flying in house. I personally think that would be a good thing but there's a lot of regional lifers who don't.

2) All of the legacies bring their regional pilots onto their list.

I for one got into this game before 9/11 and expected to fly small turboprops for a few years and then move on. I didn't set out to "disrespect" or devalue the profession. I just followed the conventional career path wisdom and look where it got me. Why don't the legacy pilots try to force their regionals onto their list? That's where they should have been all along, at least since the day the first RJ rolled off the line.


Of course.