OK, Romulus, Speaking of writing in english, I'll bite. What does divim nauta mean? Don't get all intellectual on us here, OK?

Anyway, back to the original premise of the thread: ALPA must transform its' policies. They are using the playbook of the last couple generations which doesn't really work anymore.

Here's the deal: We are not in a recession, we are in a DEPRESSION! And not just any old depression but what some are calling a transformational depression. Key word transformational. Many of you have read the books like "The World is Flat", etc. Well, to get to that happy place where the world is all egalitarian requires many of the old policies and institutions to be swept away. The economy is going to be transformed into something that looks a lot different.

Many companies including the airlines are strictly in survival mode right now. ALPA is probably included in this group; just surviving. The winners coming out of this depression will be 1) those that are first just able to survive 2) those that figure out what the future is going to look like and 3) those that adapt most quickly to what the future is going to be.