My response to the pay question did not involve Southwest.

I simply asked that we demand the same increase Delta / UHC has been getting on our health care coverage and a similar decrease in what we cover (productivity).

Since Richard used to run UHC, he surely understands what we mean when we say "increased premium for decreased coverage." UHC's profits are up 21% year on year through the first quarter 2010 so its strategy of acting like an unregulated monopoly (they have good scope) is rewarding them well.

When you baseline the cost of my coverage since 1999 through Delta and its various subsidiaries, the cost is up somewhere in the neighborhood of 350% while coverage is around 80% (very rough number) of what it once provided.