I don't. F-them, we (Eagle) took over 500 pilots to keep them off the street, and all they care about is APA pilots. They don't want to work with us. They want us gone. Not the flying just the pilots.
http://www.alliedpilots.org/Public/Perspective/Video/Featured/PP.html
So... we take the worst aspect of any given pilot group, and refuse to rise above that?
I dunno about you brother, but I'm takin' the high road on this one.
Consider it from their angle. They're not mad at US.. they're mad at management. Our presence was an act of management. We're an overgrown regional feeder, not a tumor. If they have personal animosity towards us, that's their heartburn.
Besides, we both know this will never happen. Like I wrote before, we've all been distracted by shiny paychecks and hopes for the future while managements undermined ALL futures by growing regionals instead of mainlines. Legacy carrier pilots are as much to blame for this as much as management- they really never thought this would happen, for the most part, and never negotiated to prevent it.
When I say I support the APA, you have to understand exactly where I'm coming from. I really believe that their heyday has past and management will stop at nothing to nail that coffin shut. As such, I say they should get as much as they can for as long as they can, as there will be little growth at AA in the years ahead. That said, let those who are there now retire having earned as much as possible- they fought for it, let them have it.
As AA and other Legacy carrier pilots retire in droves, we should encourage them to soak up as much of their accomplishments as possible. They set the bar high for pilot career expectations in the Regulation era.
For us, the game has changed. Given that, now it's our turn to set a high standard and leave our mark on aviation history.
We don't have to kneecap our elders to do that. Like it or not, APA pilots will lose out to feeder growth whether it's Eagle or somebody else. I hope they do so gracefully, and use that concession to grab up as much as they can everywhere else.