If ALPA operated as you stated above wouldn't the less experienced or more junior pilots still complain that you are taking their rightful seat?
Why does someone who has been a member of a union longer that a junior worker have to retire at certain age just to allow the junior worker to upgrade?
Does this happen at the plumbers union? How about the carpenters union? Longshoremen?
We call ourselves brothers yet we can't wait to stick a knife in the back of the guy ahead us. As individuals we run our life as we see fit yet others (younger) tell us how we should have ran it so they could have our position regardless of whether or not we actually love what we're doing. Unbelievable.
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