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Old 01-09-2011 | 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
A senior / junior divide is counterproductive. Both need each other to achieve success in contract negotiations. Carl's understanding and support for better scope is very much appreciated by the junior guys on this board.
It is counterproductive Bar, but it HAS to be fought when it happens. When this BS started a few years ago, I tried to keep silent. Then I realized that by keeping silent, I was allowing a completely false history to go unchallenged...thus becoming fact. Statements like: "Senior pilots sold scope and sold their junior pilots to line their own pockets..." When those kinds of things were said, they went completely unchallenged. It's because so many here are junior and former RJ pilots. I understand that. But you need to understand that you would do (and have done) the very same thing when people talk of history that is completely wrong.

By far the best thing we could all do is stop this divisive nonesense about senior pilots having ruined the industry. And senior pilots selling scope thus forcing you to lose decades of longevity at the majors, etc. None of it's true. I and others won't have to keep factually criticizing it, if it wasn't done.

Carl