Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
Bull$7it. That's not what I said so quit trying to put words into my mouth. For the record I came up through the regional ranks and paid my dues as well. The difference was that when I was qualified to move onto a legacy the industry was in the toilet post 9/11.
Now we finally have the good jobs back at the legacies and yet some of you continue to make excuses for not defending those jobs aggressively. Seriously, w-t-f is wrong with some of your lines of reasoning?!
Even IF you don't find yourself at one of those legacy jobs, they help lift the entire piloting profession up. Think about it.
Calm down, sparky. All I'd like to see is this kind of fervor and tenacity from my "union" not only to prevent this garbage from happening at the major level, but stop its practice at the regional level. You wouldn't believe how many of my FOs have no sympathy for national ****ing and moaning about NAI, when that same "union" has allowed that to perpetuate at our level for so long. But, I guess we're just paying our dues. I've had 3 FOs who have interviewed at NAI, supposedly. Can't blame them. They have families to feed, and our union mainline partner has let our well compensated union operation wither and die, while they give our nonunion sister company lucrative contracts. Never saw any outrage over that. But, yeah... brotherhood and unity... Rah rah rah. :-/