The only time in recent memory I can remember a captain denying me a landing is when one was about to go on vacation and needed to reset his count as he was planning on being out for a couple months. I asked the last captain I flew with for the odd landing and he was happy to give it to me.

As far as the SM, many of captains I've flown with on the triple have really seemed to come around, or at least recognize that actively undermining our new union leadership is only going to prolong them getting a new contract. In fact, I had a layover a few weeks ago where we ran into an LCA at a pub in CDG who was ponitificating his SM idiocy as if it was gospel, and the Capt I was with shut him down so hard I thought they might get physical. Labeling all the 77 Capts as SM stooges is definitely inaccurate.