Originally Posted by
seafeye
You have it all wrong. We are very excited about being here. This issue is that you think it was an easy route to AA. Many have paid their dues over and over struggling at the regionals with inept unions, poor management and everything that goes along with that. We don't need Senior pilots telling us how good we have it. Because we are far more aware than you think. You need to understand how selling scope has been and is the biggest negative impact you can do to the industry. Age 65/911/increasing scope has not made it an easy path to a mainline carrier. And don't forget in 2005 there were 6 mainline carriers. Now 3.
Seafeye,
I realize most are happy to be here. I was responding to those few complaining about "being here" not "getting here". Your group is not the first group that had a tough time getting here. While your group was trying to get here we were taking massive cuts to our contracts and what used to be a good quality of life. Like you said about senior guys telling you all, we don't need to hear about it from the junior guys. We've already lived it. So it's not been fun for anyone over the past decade or more.
As for selling out Scope you might want to see how the BK process works. We didn't sell scope it was robbed from us, just like our pay, work rules and pensions were while you were trying to get here.
So now that you got here (not necessarily you) start acting like you enjoy it because nothing is going to change the time it took you to get here.