i have to agree salty sounds like he has it nailed. Yes it sucks guys are on the street and they are hiring FAR pilots in the guise as managers. Unfortunately the IPA and I guess membership(who voted the last contract in) missed the management loophole???? don't see that it was missed but perhaps more like rolling the dice and not bothering to fight for it after the nice payscale they gave you(it is a very nice payscale) Now guys are throwing the word scab around and to be quite honest, i don't see it. Maybe close the loophole, disallow so many manager pilots and then there will be no issue.