I agree to a degree with you but i do think a lot of the "my regional is better then yours..." business comes from people getting frustrated with the constant undercutting in the industry. You could concentrate on improving your airline but as history keeps repeating itself the better-ed airlines never stay on top for long because they start getting undercut. Comair, AWAC,... are some of the recent obvious ones. A lot of people start holding grudges against these undercutting airlines and their pilots even if their pilots had nothing to do with the actual business side of the undercutting. It is almost a disbelief in the lack of understanding of fellow pilots who are willing to work for a company that is basically taking the pilot profession backwards as far as pay and benefits go. Management wins and the whipshaw continues. Those better-ed airline employees are soon downsized and looking for work at the next to be better-ed airline. There wont be any forward progress until everyone is miserable and so far there has always been someone naive enough to fly for miserable pay and working conditions.

Where are the unions in this? that can be debated but unions have been ineffective in educating younger pilots on their career options and rallying the troops towards one collective goal. Voting in a union could be a good thing for a pilot group but it doesn't guarantee anything.

ps. i think my dad could whoop your dads ass ... jk