Our pilot group has an enormous amount of chronologically young folks. I fly with FO's under 30 on a regular basis. Suffering for one year financially pales in comparison to being stuck as the lowest paid 12th year captain for more than 20 to 30 years. The math just doesn't make sense when considering the long term.

Just wait until you've been the lowest compensated narrow body 12th year captain pay for the last 20 years and get back to us on the hand wringing over first year pay. I can't believe we have people in our group that don't squarely put attraction and attrition on the shoulders of the folks that actually are paid to make those decisions and it isn't the line slime's responsibility.

If the JCBA goes through my above comments may not carry as much weight, due to what I imagine will be enormous stagnation in the ranks due to inflation and recession but we have to fight what's in front of us today, and move forward as though the purchase will fail. We are not bargaining the SLI and JCBA yet.