Management alert!
Originally Posted by sarcasticspasti
You guys live in a vacuum. One national seniority list? Are you saying that no sane man would want to be without a union? The vast majority of the nation has decided that they do not. Do you want to force them to? Which union? ALPA, APA, Teamsters, etc.? What about a free market? The public has voted with their wallets and has decided that they will not pay the fares required to support $300,000/year Captains. So the club should be closed to new members? Shrink the airlines, the capacity, and the pilot group to support higher fares and higher salaries? give me a break.
SWA fuel hedges running out in 2010? You don't think they're buying new contracts that expire in 2011? 2012? Management making too much? ALPA didn't complain in the 1990's they just said, "Gimme some too!"
If I ever met a union pilot that was happy with his job I would die of shock.
Well, you haven't met me, but
I am one of those happy with his job.
BTW, the $300k Captains aren't what is wrong with this industry. If the fares were anywhere close to the value they deliver, all of the airlines would be posting quarterly profits. $89 one-way coast-to-coast? Gimme a break! Oh yeah, don't forget the drain the federal government is imposing on the airlines with it's taxes and fees...