Originally Posted by
Huck
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.....
I'm a Captain now and this means I'll be a Captain five more years than I want to with no multiplier....Five more years of being Junior than hell....five more years I have to wait to make widebody Captain.
As you widebody F/O's like to regale me on a regular basis, "a widebody F/O makes about as much as a narrowbody Captain, and they don't have to go to Flint."
It is not a F/O vs Captain thing Huck....it is a "Short sighted greedy 'I got mine' bastard" vs everyone else thing.
I love you man.....just realize we are like-minded individuals on this. I nominate Albie for MEC something or other.
If ALPA is trying to "get out ahead of this thing" to control it, then they better get way ahead......there are some serious issues to deal with and if they don't, then we'll be takin this profession back all right.....we'll be takin it back right up the @ss.