Hmmm ... I'll assume this guy with 757/767, 737-800 and MD-11 experince is either an AA or DL person? Years back, when my former airline went out of business, the then "healthy carriers" wanted nothing to do with us! Just staple them on the bottom! A national ALPA seniority list? Screw that! We really don't care about them.

Now that the tables are reversed a bit, I'm amused that they have the nerve to whine as much as they do. We could have fixed some of these problems years ago but the guys (and gals) at the healthy carriers just weren't interested?

Now it's those same guys that want to change the age 60 rule because the poor babies lost nearly all their retirements. Waaaaah. What goes around comes around baby ... you can be my flight engineer anytime (at least our new contract won't require that you bring the coffee jug to the airplane anymore). Stapled to the bottom of the list of course, after we buy all of their airplanes.

Bottom line, I really do feel for the highly qualified professionals that have given their life to an industry that will be unable to live up to previous promises. I've been there! Fortunately for me, I was young enough to recover at a healthy carrier that will, "probably", (I hope) be around long after I retire.

Maybe the new ALPA president will rethink previous issues for the good of all of us. I hope so.

Mark