Originally Posted by Herkflyr

And absolutely nuking, with a 50 kiloton hydrogen bomb, certainly the spirit, and probably the letter, of what organized labor is all about. I can't believe you are saying, "hey go play the IA game--it is great!"

By the way, contrary to someone's misread of an earlier post of mine, this whole mess hardly affects me. A330A, getting on in years, I just flew my first GS of the year (I average one a year) and am pretty well paid for flying a normal schedule. I've flown one IA ever, and that was about five years ago.

MY flying life is good, but I am both in a category and career stage where all this stuff doesn't relate much. However I am a big proponent of the letter and spirit of organized labor and our PWA. I don't like seeing guys who are volunteering to help the company out, anticipating premium pay as the quid pro quo, and not getting it--like they used to--for all sorts of not-great reasons.

Obviously we have some leverage (the amount is debatable) and I am not saying we should just give things away for free. However, there are those who reasonably believe that the entire Auto Accept leading to mass IAs is itself an anti-spirit-of-the-PWA concession of sorts.

I'd like to see all this resolved so that pilots aren't bitter between themselves.