Not by itself... no. But sailingfun has dedicated a huge amount of his posts trying to minimize the numbers we would need for restoration or parity with SWA, etc. If I didn't actually know who he is in real life, I would swear it's RA himself posting on here. Like I said, hopefully it's not working. But when a person continually throws out slanted/partial info that would lead one to think we're doing pretty well already and that we don't need all that much going forward, he is appearing to attempt to manage expectations. Some might read that and think, "well, this guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about" and then, voila, you have lowered expectations. Like you said, most of our pilots are more savvy than that. But there are also those who in the past have appeared to let DALPA think for them. I remember the bag stickers from a while back that said, "My union speaks for me." It's that mentality that is disturbing in light of our situation today.

I propose a new bag sticker now (although it probably wouldn't do much good since we don't have flight bags anymore): "My unions squeaks for me." That sounds more like it, unfortunately!