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By your admission there. KA pilots have big balls. QED really. If integration is untenable for me. I will go. If you lost a 'single slot' you wouldn't leave your comfort zone of the last 14 years.
Yes. You will get nasty. Rally a fractured pilot group in a direction that will be a catalyst for more eventual disunity and power to management.
Suggesting KA pilots have the most to gain is utter garbage. Frankly, I believe we have the most to lose. Possible dilution of our unity and good cockpit spirit and culture. In a move toward the fractured, spiteful and pathetically self serving psyche evidenced amongst the CX pilots.
If I stole your logic too. Staying seperate would maintain our access to our fast growing region. Where growth needs to be expanded providing rapid and preserving fast promotional opportunites for our pilots. It doesn't work like that though. CX aircraft will expand over our traditional routes and us over theirs.But if I was a goose I would suggest 'blood in the streets' everytime a CX 777 runs up to PEK or PVG.
Staying seperate could facilitate a grab at a number of group expansion opportunities. Out of CC and with a new found efficiencies. Coupled with a high success rate in command upgrades. KA will be a bit of a testing ground for CX management- if we can expand fast we will. A junior DPA member is better served in this scenario.
We bought you attitude will cost you dearly. Even to suggest this line of thought opens the very vulnerabilities of your pilot group. Have a look at every one of the industrial battles you have been routed in. And I know this means a lot to you; but what has been the standing on 89 of the two pilots groups ( KA & CX ) ?
Yes. KA pilots could be giving up a great deal with integration. Even reasonable offers could be detrimental to DPA membership. But sometimes, sacrifices need to be made for the greater- group. This last statement, if fact, a logic to suggest management would thwart attempts to integrate happily.