Originally Posted by
webecheck
The apologists don't have North American or European legacy jobs so they clearly don't care. They applied and never heard a peep, or their interview went poorly resulting in a TBNT. Thus, their job isn't threatened and the envy in them wants to see those with a better situation than they have falter.
Or it could be the recognition of the fact claims of a new carrier threatening the quality of legacy jobs has been endless and for the most part baseless for 40+ years. The U.S. legacy airlines, the big 3 plus Alaska and Hawaiian, employ more pilots now than Alaska, Braniff, Continental, Delta, Eastern, Hawaiian, National, Northwest Orient, Pan Am, TWA, and United all did 40 years ago. They do this despite the competition from Southwest, America West, Republic (the original), PeoplExpress, the second Midway, JetBlue, and Virgin America, all of which were accused of "dragging down the profession". At some point it becomes like the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf'.
I will point out once again that Virgin America was called by many the single biggest threat to the profession we have ever seen. Pilots who went there were compared to scabs and accused of undercutting the legacy pilots quality of life. Now Virgin America pilots are proud ALPA members and as of earlier this month, employed by a legacy airline. Pilots at PeoplExpress were accused of the same thing 35 years ago and now those that are still flying are senior captains at United. Southwest had the same accusation hurled at them and for most of the past 15 years have been the highest paid pilots in the States. It just gets tiring and old hearing the same empty arguments over and over again...