Old guys--this loss of confidence affects you too.
Let me bottom-line this for you:
If you're a captain now, you'll be a captain for five more years.
If you're an F/O, you'll be an F/O for five more years.
Those in the first group run the union, the blue-ribbon commission and the company. They can talk about unity, the good of the profession and how the youngsters need to take it like a man - it's easy, because someone else's ox is being gored.
Those in the second group are going to lose tens of thousands of dollars, or more, over this. But someday WE'LL run the union, the blue-ribbon commissions and the company. And the elephant never forgets.
Oh and if Capt. Webb gets his way, about 100 of the junior guys in the first group will get bumped back to the second group.....