Originally Posted by
Superdad
Are you somehow trying to imply that becoming a regional pilot in hopes of getting hired by a major, is the root of the problem?
Again, DAL pilots gave away scope. It wasn't ALPA national and it definitely wasn't regional pilots that took it away. You have got to stop putting this ridiculous spin on the topic. With the exception of the misguided few at the RJDC, I doubt if you can find many RJ pilots who would rather be at the regional than at a major, and therefore want to "steal" your flying.
I must concur with the others, if your views on the subject are those of the DPA, then I am not interested.
I've been extremely busy the past few days, thus not able to reply back to all of Carl's responses or even notice some of them until long after the fact, so Carl I apologize- I was not intentionally ignoring you.
When I went back to reply though... I again realized that, while he has good intentions, he is so far on a disconnect with the current process in making your way up in the civilian world that it just isn't worth it to argue.
A little fun fact for Carl (knowing full well it won't do any good): as far as I can tell, FTB is the only DAL pilot that regularly posts on here that got hired directly from corporate, and he previously flew for Expressjet. It don't even know if the people that don't come from regionals or military make up a full 1% of newhires. (and that's why FTB is so speshul...)
With that, Carl and I are going to have to agree to disagree as I'm through banging my head against the wall.
As far as his views for the DPA, I'd rather have him in a position of leadership with his skewed views rather than a senior guy that thinks scope is just a brand of mouthwash.