Originally Posted by Mowgli

So it seems like there are two choices here in dealing with the company or companies that you don’t seem to agree with.

You can go after the small fish i.e. the pilots. Now if your ultimate goal is to affect change and improve conditions not only for your airline, but for regionals as a whole. I don’t think this would be terribly effective. Do you really think that someone is going to see the divine light after being accosted while getting coffee at Starbucks? Is denying a jumpseat really going to affect the change that you are looking for? You may get 5 to 10 minuets of perverse pleasure buy doing that and an evil chuckle to boot, but what have you really accomplished? Not only have you not affected the any change, but you are creating a bit of animosity to boot. You may not care about that now, but sometime down the road it may come back to bite you. Once again your fellow pilots are people just like you, unlike greedy management which is another creature entirely.


You can try and deal with management, hopefully through your union. The problem is that management has been changing the rules that not only you have to play by, but also your union. They have been affecting this change politically. Those are truly the big fish in this pond.

The argument comes down to “Take one for the Team”. Don’t get a job, or start your career at airline X. Help make the industry and more importantly my job better by not taking that job at airline X.

If you really want to make the industry a better place, you too get to take one for the team. By going after the big fish here, and actually voting for politicians who are pro labor and pro union. These are the people who can affect the most change.

If you your self are not able to take one for the team with your vote how can you complain about anyone else?