It's not the RAH pilots who feel this way. It is almost every pilot group. Anytime a pilot group has stood up together and achieved progress, another smaller leaner group has cut their legs out from under them. (Comair, ExpressJet come to mind as examples) This current situation isn't the RAH pilot groups fault. They sure do play a nice scapegoat though. And while I think a few of their pilots are pricks, I think the majority of them feel powerless to stop what has happened. Toothpaste usually doesn't go back in the tube, can't stop the toilet from flushing, can't get the pee out of the pool... etc you get the point.

RAH's union sucks. So does every other union that represents airlines. Last we forget, pilots hate ALPA too. Yes the unions have made mistakes, but to be honest the political and social environment over the last 25 years has not been good for unions to make inroads and progress. We are seeing the effects of deregulation greater than ever before. Reduction in safety, (Colgan, SWA) and reduction in quality of pilot lifestyles.

Deregulation has worked and we are all competing for a smaller pieces of pie. Pilots need to realize that we are all hedged against each other and that is the way people who run airlines like it. The current seniority system we have, it doesn't work. Eventually someone in this country will figure it out, most of the foreign carriers already have. In the mean time, we will continue chest beating and attacking those who are only the pawns of their management. This year it is RAH. Soon enough it will be somebody else. Fire Away!