That'd be nice, but unless some national-sized organization such as ALPA decides to take a stand on issues like this, the corporations will do the same to the airline industry that they did to the U.S.A. textile industry.

Remember when the last Levi Strauss closed it's last U.S. based factory and outsourced overseas? The same thing is happening to us. It's not just the airlines either, it's every job of value which can be done by someone else more cheaply in a Third World Country. Next up; cabotage.

BTW, telling the pilots of a start-up "bottom-feeder" airline to hold the line against corporate greed while the legacies are back-pedaling to the 1960s is worse than hypocritical. It is useless finger-pointing which puts the blame on the wrong party. I don't fault the Colgan pilots for the actions of their company. Although those pilots in the industry who have more experience in both flying and unionism could have helped mitigate these issues if they'd chosen to work together on the problem, the main problem is much larger than the airline industry. The power money has on almost everything in our nation overtakes many of our traditional values as America citizens and it has overtaken certain aspects of airline safety.

The many statements by Mr. Cohen poo-pooing safety concerns voiced by ALPA such as fatigue, low pay, scheduling and so forth are the perfect example of what I am writing about.