At 964 posts - compared to my 25 posts - I would argue that that saying clearly applies to you.

Regardless, people like you are JO's wet dream.

And you always will be.

You won't fight - you'll just accept whatever scraps happen to be thrown to you by your captors. You lick their boots, and try to argue that you're not licking their boots.

You are the reason the new 'norm' is 70K-80K per year for a captain - instead of in the 200's (topping out over 300K). Instead of fighting, you justified it. You bought into their argument.

For anyone thinking of simply getting out of this industry BEFORE retirement - and finding a career that we can salvage our ability to make a living AND put away enough for retirement - it's because people like you are voting 'yes' to contracts that any sane pilot would vote no on.

You ENABLE them to continue doing this to us.

You accept that Mesa's version of ALPA (LOL) is akin to a really bad joke - being played on all of us.

I grew up in a household with a parent who was in executive mgmt at a legacy. I've overheard (seemingly) millions of conversations. One thing is for sure - executive management's hatred for pilots is far greater than most of us realize.

They go WAY out of their way to screw us. Again and again and again.

Had I not seen this firsthand, I'm not sure I would have believed it myself.

Don't believe me?

Look at your pay scales. Look at your QOL. Look at your med/dental benefits.

Look at your 'union.'

Look at the fact that only half of this pilot group is getting a shot at a flow-through.

And not a peep from our 'union'

In other words, look at the result - instead of focusing on your false hope. Your ignorance is staggering - yet you aren't the only one. I fly with people like you several times a week.

Airlines' executive management didn't just beat us - now they're doing their end-zone dance on top of us.

And where is our 'union?' They're dancing too - but pretending to be angry.

My opinion here, but they are ripe for a class-action suit for misrepresentation . . .