Originally Posted by Electra

Oh boy. I am so tired of this pathetic whine... If there were no women and minorities, it would still be difficult for all you White Male pilots to beat each other in the door. The 5% of us in the industry aren't stealing all your mainline jobs. Plenty of not-female, not-black, not-checkairmen, not-captains are getting hired, but they usually know someone. Make sure you complain about them, too.

The fact is that the real push to hire won't happen until the massive retirements kick in, 3-4 years from now. Let's stop complaining about the "lifers", Senior captains aren't ruining your career and taking all the pay that should go to you. You should have known what your pay was going to be before you came to work at the company, and if your expectation was otherwise or that you'd upgrade quickly and not have to worry about FO pay for long, then shame on you for not doing your homework. CCB has a legit gripe, and it's why I won't go on the Sapa forums, either, it gives me heartburn. Although I do think there's merit in having to post your own junk under your own name, makes it easier to know who's gonna be, uh, interesting to fly with ahead of time.