Excargodog made my point but, just to double down on what he said…. Yes… I’m very familiar with the ex mil guys doin yeomans work for our contract, AND, also, not even throwing stones at the ones that aren’t… I was simply saying that when/if you already have some of the provisions one might seek in a contract provided by other means (mil retirement, lack of need to commute because you retired in the area etc, extra income from guard duty, etc) you might not feel the need to fight for things that other carriers already had in the past. There are some things missing in our contract that we’re fighting for, that I actually defend the lack of in the past. For instance, if most of the pilots are from/live in base, all of a sudden using negotiating capital to hammer out better reserve rules or commuter policy might seem crazy. Bottom line, on the “ex mil pilot” point, in particular, I was just listing what I thought was another possible answer to why our contract is so far behind…. Not so much laying blame.

Blame doesn’t matter anyway. Here we are. Times have changed. Time for our contract to evolve as well.