Originally Posted by
CRM114
If this thread represents the attitude, awareness, and knowledge of the issues affecting our profession, then sadly, our profession is lost. The future generation of pilots is inheriting a 100 year legacy of struggle and fights with the governments and airline bosses. To suggest handing over the richest consumer market to new entrants that don't have to play by the same rules as those imposed on incumbent carriers is misguided at best.
The arrogance to think foreign airlines, the likes of NAI will represent any kind of long-term industry-wide improvement to your pay, quality of life, retirement, or medical assistance is just laughable.
If you only want a cheap airline ticket on an airline with marginal infrastructure, the NAI's of the world may be the way to go. If on the other hand you're a pilot and want any semblance of a career, defeating NAI (and those that will follow) is the most important battle of your career.
The OP's man-boy tantrum is akin to "taking his ball and going home." But, when you get over yourselves, I hope you can man up an see the threat that's on your doorstep is a game changer, and you won't like the game.
We could say this industry was lost the day Major pilot unions signed scope away for pay raises. Just because some people think this way does not mean we all do. It also does not mean it is the end of the industry because someone thinks this is a good Idea and you do not. I do not support foreign airlines coming here with all of their schemes. How ever I do understand the OP's point of view and respect his opinion. There are a lot of us who have been burnt badly in our short careers. We here a lot of it is just our entitlement attitude but when age 65 was passed we could not speak up against it with out getting harassed that we didn't understand what is like to lose your retirement right before you retire. And they are right, We will not have any kind of retirement other then a 401k we will have spent 6-8 years making under 45k a year some of us well under it all well most of us have student loan debt. We also hear about how we have to earn a job to go to mainline and not expect a flow. Some of us think that if we are a wholly owned we are earning our major partner a profit and we are putting our time in and feel this should be us earning our way. We both work for the same INC why not allow us to step up to the big leagues if we have shown we are a good employee. Some of the Pilot at the majors didnt earn it the same way others have. We have all been hired at different times when their were different needs of each airline. My point is we all could do a with a little more humility and trying to understand where others are coming from. And then use that to help build a better industry.