This is a very defeated pilot group. Many people here such as bozo are spouting false propaganda to make things seem better than they truly are. The truth is that we have a contract proposal on deck that is grossly substandard and will affect your quality of life if passed. Since you are quite an accomplished professional pilot, you should consider an airline where pilots respect themselves and they fight for pay and work rules. May I suggest Delta, where they will love someone of your accomplishment. Many people here are stuck in a regional mindset of begging for sloppy seconds. They are happy to get any table scraps. To them sacrifice means standing in an informational picket line in the freezing cold for a day. Anything harder than that and they give up. Because the pilot group is so defeated, they don't know any better and they won't fight for better pay and better rules. The TA that we have right now was not obtained through actual sacrifice. It is the result of a few low energy meetings. When we had our greatest opportunity to do an informational picket, namely at the shareholder meeting, our people chose to stand down because blue jet gave them some kind of carrot that they bit off on. As a result of their naivety and lack of expertise, we got a TA that is not leading in anyway whatsoever and trails everyone. This means that you're going to be working harder to make the same amount as your equals at other respectable airlines. And in order for you to even begin to approach the compensation of other airlines, you're going to trade for a lot of time that you would've had at home. As a military guy and contract guy, you spent a lot of time away from home and the last thing you want is to be an airline where you're going to be spending a lot of time away from home also but not making very much. There's a few vocal guys here who seem to defend the TA because they have special circumstances such as being staff pilots, live in base, or have high seniority.

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