Well written, and totally agree.
If this is not resolved by the end of the year, I'll be gone. 12 years in and just waiting for my turn for command. I'd rather have a base, but then not even sure that is enough any more.
When I joined, this WAS a career airline. Now it's more like a flight school with an extended line training package.
I began my letter by stating that the DFO wrote as though he is the DFO of another airline. Thinking about it, he is acting like the Director of Training of many other airlines, as we are effectively a flight school training pilots for our competitors...