You may want to think good and hard about that. I am further away from upgrade than that (until we get those magic ATR's, that is!?!?!??) and I have no intent of going there even if we get shutdown and I can keep half my longevity.

You gotta do what you gotta do at the end of the day. Bottom line, all regionals are what they are. This one is just at the bottom of the hill that the race is leading to. I really don't think XJT is going anywhere anytime soon. Especially if they are giving you guys a cool new name.

My contempt for this particular group is the attitude of "I know I walked over the back of a bunch of furloughed guys to get here, but they really don't care anymore and I am just here to get my 1,000 PIC and get out." First of all, that attitude has created this S*@t show in the first place. And two, Southwest and American are not going to be ringing your phone off the hook once you write down 1,000 hours of PIC turbine on your resume.

Anyway, rant over.