Strikes,

Thanks for your "candor" to use a phrase from our imperious leader.

There is still a fair amount of circular reasoning in your post on many of your points of argument.

Getting 777 FO's to bid for 737 Captain and then move on, so as to make things better? Isn't this just counting on a bit too much? We have a fair amount of older FO's that are refuges from other carriers that can't just go to the bottom of the seniority list at some other carrier. Who's to say what the hiring environment is going to be like when these people get sufficient command time to move on? Seeing how little time that the 73's fly it's going to be a while before you get 1000 hours.

There is a lot of people that have been @ SAI for over 5 years that don't ever see the possibility of going to the left seat of the 777. When you consider that the 5th 777 is always somewhere out on the horizon as some vague possibility, it makes it that much more hopeless for these folks. The situation on the 777 is complete stagnation, with no relief in sight. Going to the 737 for slave wages when they probably already have command time is an act of total stupidity.

Moving to the 737 even as Captain says nothing of the fact of the penalty to be paid in a cr*ppy lifestyle, loss of home basing, pay cut that we were all sold into accepting in a vain attempt to tell us that all our jobs would be lost if we didn't sign on the dotted line on a cr*p LOA, that damages SAI pilots irrefutably, drives a wedge between SAI and the other 1224/DHL carriers, and cheapens the entire industry. So what your saying is that these people have to suffer even more to attempt to make things better at SAI, and keep them from hiring 737 DEC's?

It is fairly obvious that management doesn't care about training costs. They never have, and never will. SAI has spent more on training in the last year than what they say they will be saving by moving 767 ops to their new precious nugget FWIA. Lies is the only thing that is perpetuated by SAI management.

The only thing that would have any affect on this company is that people will just not want to work here, period end of story. Aircraft will not move because they aren't staffed (can you say NAC 737?).

Appealing to the younger crowd to come here, get some experience and move on is counter to this goal, so are you really helping the cause by selling SAI as a great place to work, get experience, and are you still saying that "The Triple Seven is like working for a whole other company"

I think that your top ten captain's perspective is out of sync with the reality of the rest of people at SAI. The majority of 777 captains (save the top tier Check Airmen) are not pulling in more than 200K a year unless they are not home for more than 3-5 days a month, or have been sucked into some brutal TEP situation - repeatedly. FO's are only making good money if they are suffering in a similar fashion. The wages here s*ck. Decent money is only made here by flying brutal schedules and putting your long term health at risk.

It's hard to have any true perspective of other peoples lives when you are living the charmed existence at the top of the stack. So maybe you should follow your own advice, "$TFU" and do the real work necessary to make thing better @ the new SAI.

Sorry for my "candor" - End of Rant.