Originally Posted by
Race Bannon
Those "greedy senior pilots" spent 15 years with bankruptcy wages and work rules after serving out a B-scale. I get the impression that you think those senior greedy pilots have been making 400-500K a year for their 30+yeard career. They are "willingly and selfishly sacrificing the leverage" to get them up to your(newish pilots') level of career expectations after 15 years of having their a$$ handed to them.
The red part sounds like you are just as greedy as what you are accusing them of.
No one's entitled to anything in this job. Every generation of pilots will have ups and downs. I've watched every moment of serious traction get sidelined by something. 9/11, Age 65, the recession, then Covid. I have enough of a career ahead of me with enough black swans to worry about, that watching the outgoing generation crab-in-a-bucket the new folks and fight to cool off the momentum we've finally got is just painful. I can still retire when I want? How about any legacy pilot 65+ can still go work for any number of non-121 flying gigs and make good money there. Both arguments are essentially greedy when you get down to it. Difference is, the anti-67 argument has precedence on it's side. We're not campaigning to
lower the retirement age, you're campaigning to
raise it. Which sounds more like entitlement to you? You're the ones with a case to make, and "helping the company" and "I deserve it because I had a rocky road" don't make great ones, sorry. All the young whipper-snappers coming up now will undoubtedly face many hurdles of their own, if that makes you feel any better.