Originally Posted by Springfield

Sorry BlueDriver, I think you missed my point, I'm agreeing with your POV. The union is who prevents me from jumping ahead of all of you. And that's a good thing, because the next guy would then agree to fly my airplane for even less.

I had a friend who left Cathay Pacific. He was American and came to understand that only the Brits, friends of the Brit Chief Pilot, were ever going to upgrade. The only thing worse than a union is not having a union.