Well, my poorly stated point was that all airline management is cut from the same cloth. All they care about is the bottom line. And pilots are just widgets, no different than any other cost to the airline.

We can cheerlead for our management when their goals align with ours, but we must always remember that management will always try to lowball us on our wages/compensation. Just like managements want a certain amount of overbooking and view paying off bumped passengers as part of their attempt to maximize profits, they also welcome a certain amount of pilot attrition in order to minimize overall pilot costs. It will raise training costs, but is more than offset by savings on the overall contract.