Originally Posted by schloppy1

7000 hrs of CRJ SIC here. This is not an issue of who has had it harder. We all have a story. This industry enjoyed two decades of free labor. Be it bankruptcy, 4A2b, or hiring regional pilots for 19.00/hr with payroll deduct for their uniforms. We’re just now starting to catch up to where the industry was in 2000. America’s airlines created this labor shortage by exploiting workers and can now pay up or watch their product continue to deteriorate. Eventually that’ll have an effect on their precious stock price. The moral of this story is: The old timer is not the adversary, the civilian guy isn’t our adversary, the mil guy isn’t our adversary, the 25 year old new hire isn’t our adversary. Our adversary is a corporation that made billions off our backs and is now crying poor and hinting at a reduction in force. This is all a very serious game and FedEx is very good at playing it. So keep your eye on the ball and remember who we’re competing against. It isn’t our fellow pilots.