Originally Posted by
rjlavender
A brief moment of entertaining clarity:
Grown men, perhaps a majority of the FedEx ALPA membership, continue to wish for the elimination of their older "brethren" so that they can move up a number and enhance their lifestyles. In the same breath, these "union" members express outrage at pilots who fly disputed pairings to enhance theirs.
And everybody wonders why the company walks over them at every strategic turn. This is nothing but good old-fashioned entertainment.
Gentlemen, start your every-man-for-himself engines. The race to the bottom is on.
Bob, you just don't get it, do you? For someone who has had a 'moment of clarity' your thinking is extremely 'opaque.'
I don't usually care to argue or debate on these boards, but I am tired of your 'insights,' when you really are out of touch of what this pilot group actually desires.
Let me try and set you straight...
The majority of FedEx ALPA membership wanted to continue the status quo of Age 60 to
keep (not enhance, as you care to say) the lifestyle that was expected before the Age 60 change was enacted.
In the same breath we express outrage at pilots who fly disputed pairings not because they are 'enhancing' their lifestyles, but because by flying these disputed pairings, they are tying the SIGs hands on preventing these onerous pairings from showing up in the bidpacks. Thereby making these 'disputed pairings' undisputed, and thus degrading our lifestyles.
So you see, Bob, these two issues are on the same side of the coin. They both degrade the majority of the pilots' lifestyles due to the selfish wants of the few. That's why we express outrage...