sadly, there is a terrible lesson to be learned.
if you live by seniority, and your airline goes tango uniform, you lose by seniority.
if you are senior, you can continue your career by just barely passing every test/checkride you ever have.
if you are junior and excel, you do nothing to line your own pockets (though you have earned my respect).
USA ALPA has largely forgotten any semblance of loyalty to pilots who paid dues for 20 years...
USA ALPA actually pays their administrative help MORE than a 737 pilot at many domestic airlines.
TO the PanAmigos...I am sorry you got screwed over. I really am. There is no excuse except greed.
and we, as a profession, are "greeding" ourselves out of existence.
any airline in the USA that really promotes only based on MERIT, please tell us who you are.
ALPA will soon be de-certified at my airline I think and hope.
You can't change the rules once the game has started....but alpa did