Resistance, you truly are a masochist. If you care to take your blinkers off for a few minutes and take a look at the big picture, you will see that the proposal I put forward in my previous posting is the best way to get rid of ASL for good, and to allow the AOA the control they need to prevent abuses of the system in the future. However if you wish to have ASL around for the next thirty years as a constant reminder that you did'nt have the balls to stand up to managment in the first place, so be it.
"There is a tremendous amount of resentment against the ASL pilots". I thought that it was the concept of ASL that everyone was against, not the individuals. However if you want to get down and dirty, I can go there too. Lets look at the facts and not just the emotion. Not one ASL member crossed a picket line [ I know, I checked before applying ], not one direct entry ASL captain took anybody's command. Outside employment was only offered when those suitably qualified mainline officers chose not to accept the command positions offered [ don't blame them at all, I would have done the same thing in their position ]. However the reality is, that had those suitably qualified officers accepted those command slots, there would have been no direct entry comands, and every other F/O and S/O would not have had their upgrades delayed by several years. Now you may not find that very palatable, but it is the truth. You can't change history, it's set in stone, but you can influence the future, and that was what my previous proposal was all about.