Originally Posted by
1stCivDivPilot
Very good point. I think TR did a great thing by including pilots that don't plan on going anywhere. The pilot group needs that consistency. I don't give National that much credit.
I guess in my head I was thinking more along the lines of AA overseeing everything and pulling the strings.
I think it would be a mistake to conflate our current position and challenges at the regional level with the competency level that exists at National. The longstanding frustrations at the regionals have far more to do with market forces and what certain people in airline leadership (particularly at AAG) are failing to grasp about the changing pilot market. That ALPA an easy punching bag for people that stop learning about it at the moment they realize they can't strike at will doesn't actually mean anything.