Just ask your reps why the B6ALPA CCG doesn’t contain a slide with the historic value/pay out of profit sharing over the last 20 years like Delta’s CCG does. They know it exists. They know the value of it. It isn’t an accidental omission in educational materials.

If they properly educated the pilot group, it would make their negotiating job against the company a lot harder. Negotiating to be 6/6 with no profit sharing is a relatively easy task for ALPA. They (and National) get their cut in a timely manner and avoid a labor dispute, and their cut of incremental gains achieved by going back to the table are a rounding error to them. Reps don’t want to be recalled, so they sell sell sell. The pilots erroneously think they got a great deal and 80% are happy. Management ultimately has the lowest labor costs in the peer group while getting just enough to get people in the door, so they are happy. Win/win/win. And B6 pilots will continue to ride the coattails of real majors in perpetuity, picking up some scraps along the way, while telling their buddies and each other how good their steak dinner is.