Originally Posted by
max8222
Unfortunately our jobs are not very portable after the first year or so. If you are in accounting or some other job you can look for an equivalent or better job after a few years or longer.
No one can predict the future for cargo or pax carriers. Pax could take a nose dive, cargo you can get wet leased out.
If you can live in an airline’s domicile that is huge, if you like to fly WB international then cargo is maybe your game.
The worst thing is to have envy over someone at another carrier. As always stated you will know how your decision went the day you retire.
A national seniority list would solve that portability problem. Imagine if we had free agency, like baseball? Every other union member, except those related to aviation, can take their experience and years of service when they change employers. Why shouldn't pilots be able to do that? It would give us much more power, especially in a time of a pilot shortage. If we were able to change employers, all employers would have to offer competitive compensation packages. It would have to be grandfathered in, over a period of time, but it would be better for all pilots in the long run. We don't have leaders, either at ALPA, or the company, that think in long term periods of time, to our detriment.