It's fun listening to some captains at Alaska tell new hires they should leave and get their apps out.

All this as a means to "leverage" something at negotiation time.

Here's an idea. Lets get a better contract and do whatever it takes to get a better agreement in place. And let's get out of the mindset that this management team is somehow a better negotiating squad than those at AA, UAL, DAL, and so on.

We need new hire to leave? We need to hire a professional negotiator? I call BS. It's a mindset that needs to change. And new hires leaving ain't going to do that.

Let's start with the mindset of the pilot group.