Birdbrain
I hope you don't experience the backlash you're expecting. And it's too bad you stopped at a private license. It's true that I don't enjoy private flying as much anymore but I do love my job. In the airline game seniority governs all. Pay, position, vacation, schedule, basically your life. To say that this is worth defending is an understatement. A person fortunate or visioned enough to have hired on with a good company should not be penalized by a nomad without such fortune or vision. This is not a communist world, it is a capitalist one. Fortune is not spread equally amongst us all but favors those lucky or forsighted. This may be akin to the line in the supermarket. Will you let me in front of you because I'm more deserving or are in more of a hurry.