Nice tie.

You may be happy to accept the scraps, but many of us are not. All I am doing is illustrating how profligate airlines have been while cheating labor out of every nickel they could, under the guise of reorganization and "shared sacrifice". To "save the company" and all that. Utter horseradish.

I am not bitter. I do not expect to sit reserve and make 85 hours without flying. That is just crap. This may surprise you, but I am a line holder. Does that forbid me from opining on improving that aspect of the contract? I love this job and I busted my esophagus to get it. However, the difference between you and I is that I am unwilling to settle for scraps. I know what we had, and I know what they took without reasonable justification. They took it because they could.

I choose to remain informed and to highlight some of the more egregious elements of labor's struggle for the benefit of open-minded and curious FNG's, as well as the willfully ignorant. If you would like to forgive and forget that is your choice. Every single CEO, (and their extensive teams) has been richly rewarded for their work here, no matter how poorly the airline performed or its stock price. Does that not rankle your epidermis?

This has zero to do with letting anything go. Rather, it has everything to do with moving forward armed with knowledge and laser focus on how we got to this position. I cannot change the past. However, we can affect the future IF we hang together. We know from your hundreds of posts that you'd work for peanuts because this job strokes your ego. Well many of us are beyond that level of self-gratification. You hold an ATP for goodness sake. Clearly, it is worth far more to me than it is to you. Yet, you just told the company that more scraps are AOK. If you don't learn from the past, you're F'd in this business. Have you not learned that?

We're in negotiations. Put on your war paint! Even if it's just for show. Zoomie's post was full of good ideas.