According to the call this morning, the new by laws change only effected 18 people. Thought that was an interesting number but by no means accurate. Of course, we never get numbers of the class sizes or attrition data, so I will just take SAPA's word for it. So far they have seemed like they have my best interests in mind. /sarcasm

All sarcasm aside, it is scary to look back at past newsletters and see what communication SAPA used to provide. Things like PBS tips and such. When we went to the new forums, we lost a lot of good information (tribal knowledge that had been passed along). I don't feel anyone is doing it on purpose, but I think we can get a little too cozy with management and not realize how little changes make big problems for line pilots. I guess until we value ourselves more as a group, or don't have FO's that need to live on only the wage SW provides for them, we will get paid what the company feels like paying us.