"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon had his moments. He knew a few things about strategy. Why do we pilots make this so hard on ourselves.

Here is what we got going for us.....
1. Qualified Pilot shortage NOW. Lets not help the adversary (management) by fixing that problem for them with work rules that benefit management instead of us.
2. Qualified Pilot shortage in the future. Lack of pipeline sources, high costs, lack of career investment by management, time investment in training, Pipeline constraints, reduced military pilots, competition in the market place. Why would we help management there as well? The 1500 hour rule should stay.
3. Many Sr. wide body FO's don't want a narrow body CA seat. Not enough reward. Too much senior level stagnation and not enough movement to left seat of a widebody due to age 65., formally age 60. Why would we want to raise the limit to 67? Dumb. We need to encourage and facilitate forward progress and career progression, not hinder it.

Remember the video, from down below a Deli, in Deli? NOT ENOUGH COPILOTS. Same logic applies now. Not enough pilots. We shouldn't solve this problem that management teams across the country started to create with the DRA of 1978 and the strikes of the 1980's. Screw management. And, I ain't fond of Kirby either. He just wants another 5 or 6 vacation homes and another few super cars. Me, I just want to retire in dignity.

Blessings,

....This is 700 and 37 desk, my name is FLOYD!