The only real career opportunity at Frontier is to be something other than a line pilot. Many pilots like 1900 have realized this and are pursuing a management position. The only way you get to any kind of a management position is to be a company cheerleader. You must carry the company water.

Some guy placed wooden coat hangars in the Airbus coat closets with "Thanks for a great 1st year" written in black Sharpie. I believe it was the same new hire who came in on a day off with a tube of Loctite to secure loose screws on our iPad mounts. Destined for management... The same new hire spent most of a 3 day trip trying to convince me the moisture raining down on the pilot group from management was, in fact, rain and not something else.

To say "a contract is not long term" is pure folly. I'm pretty sure most would agree that OUR contract IS long term. It just doesn't seem that way to 1900 because he's only been here 26 months.

To say that we may have an industry average contract in 2 years is pure folly. Nobody knows what will happen-and I'll admit that--but I fully expect our next contract will be TA'd at 11:59pm on day 30 of our cooling off period. Given the ridiculously long timeline established by the RLA bargaining process, this will take MANY years. Of course the alternative is that we could just be happy with a few minor tweaks to our existing piece of dung contract and we'll have bragging rights to achieving an agreement in sub-2-years.