It's not young vs. old, but the more senior pilot did disproportionately float.

Narrow body pilots floated less than four days on average. Widebody was more in the eight to eleven day average with senior captains, the ones who make the most and generally have less expenses (kids at home), floating the most.

Why do they do it? Because there are no ramifications. In the old days these pilots would have been highlighted.

The union needs to have these awards posted on every union board around the system so pilots will have to face their peers in the open. It's public information so post it. It won't change everyone but it will sure make them think the next time that the union asks something of them. Many did it because they didn't think anyone would notice.

Those that floated are the first to want more but they want others to be the ones to make the sacrifices to get more.

If the APA leadership is aiming to get enhancements it will need the support of its members. It's time we know who is with us and who isn't.

No more hiding. No more excuses.
It's time to be a union again with required participation from all its members, not just some. That's how our forefathers successfully established this profession decades ago. It wasn't from management's kindness it was from the solidarity of its pilots.