There is so much that goes into the hiring decision, a lot of it to me seems to be bases, pay and movement. I'd love to have been hired at an airline with bases in DEN, IAD, ORD, LAX, SFO, NYC, but I sure as heck didn't want to be hired at United these days. But when I was growing up it was all DAL, AMR and UAL.

FedEx is alluring because you can work that to live anywhere you want and do great.

What we need to remember is we as pilots, in the eyes of management, suck. We cost too much, the quality of the product we offer isn't that great as a pilot group and evidently not as a team. Otherwise why try to replace us so much?

To be honest, the airline I wanted, was Spacklair.