It's too bad this isn't a more mainstream location in the forum. I doubt that many folks are reading it. You are so incredibly out to lunch on much of what you're saying it's comical. I'd love to hear some of the feedback from the masses if this were in primetime. Like I first said, you are a piece of work.

I agreed with very little you said. Every bulleted point I clarified is total BS and you know it. Who's living in fantasy?

Grab a dictionary and look up entitlement. I read what I wrote and that's not it. An entitlement would be unearned and undeserved. Being properly compensated based on the value of one's skills and experience isn't an entitlement.

And union "strong arm" tactic? If someone is unable to earn the respect of their peers, that's somehow a character flaw of the peers?

I never said I hated anyone. I just call a spade a spade. Just because I don’t respect someone and the choices they’ve made in their life doesn’t mean I hate them. I just choose not to interact with them in any personal manner. I can still be (and have been) a professional on the flight deck.

“Of course you don't care because you have your number and your entitlement so screw the rest of the pilots and the future.”
What does this even mean?? If I'm not willing to jump on board the NineG fantasy wagon and try to get rid of unions, contracts and the seniority list I'm out to screw others and don't care about the future of the industry?

I'm on my third airline and spent 22+ years serving in the USAF and ANG. I had good quals, a good network and some luck. I wasn't entitled to anything. I worked hard to get here.

I understand how the free market works. ALPA didn’t come up with the idea of outsourcing regional flying, that was all airline management. You keep laying that at ALPA’s feet but that’s just not reality. Left alone, airlines would have crunched the numbers and outsourced everything that increased the bottom line. ALPA’s only effort in that area was an attempt to limit the outsourcing via scope. Their biggest error was lack of vision in their failure to recognize the threat those 19-30 seat turboprops represented when they eventually were traded in for 50-70 seat RJs.

I’m the one living in reality. I work in a flawed, seniority based, union driven industry and that’s the way it is. I’m not the one who spent 30 years fighting windmills unsuccessfully preaching against those things. I guess I missed where the real world (the major airline real world) allows you to compete and work your way to the top. Prefer that all you want but I’m pretty sure if you’re really a major airline captain, that’s not what’s happening.