Originally Posted by bedrock

Ok, thank you for your historic perspective on the aviation career. However, how much "jumping" and for how long until you got the "career" job? The problem with jumping around at the regionals, is they all stink and the reset of seniority and pay isn't worth it. Major airlines could not care less about keeping "talent" in house. They have been outsourcing all those problems to somebody else; don't you realize that? ALPA has failed miserably in keeping any kind of good wage structure in the regionals and its national reps have advocated in an letters to the Eagle MEC to take concessions.

ALPA did nothing to support a strike in sympathy with COMAIR either. There has been very little hiring into the majors for 10 yrs, during that time a brutal whipsaw game was played. ALPA's mantra was take concessions and live to fight another day. Meanwhile the airline career was killed off by age 65, 250 hr commercial pilots being hired as airline pilots, and the ever growing outsourcing of flying to cheaper and cheaper feed using at first 40 seaters, then 50. then 76. ALPA uttered nary a peep, until they had a full fledge revolt from fed up regional pilots who were yelling louder and louder to dump ALPA at the regionals. Regional pilots realized they were subsidizing not only huge airline profits, but also mainline salaries and offered nothing in return, other than "one day, it will be your turn". All that did not take place during your past history in the airlines.